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“Like in English, the Hebrew months are sometimes named after Greek gods ”

Not Greek, but Babylonian. The Yerushalmi in R”H says that we brought up the names after Bavel thus the only Seforim that have the current Hebrew Months names were written after the churban Bayis rishon (eg Esther, Ezra/Nechemia)
There are some names for months in Melachim Chodesh ziv (Iyar), Bul (cheshvan) Yerach haEisanim (Tishrei) but these names arent in current use.

The names of the Babylonian months were:
Nisanu, Aru, Simanu, Dumuzu, Abu, Ululu, Tisritum, Samna, Kislimu, Tebetum, Sabatu, Addaru.
It is easy to see how most of our Hebrew months’ names derive from these.
Some are from an Avodah Zarah, for example Tammuz is mentioned in Yechezkel, not as a month but as an idol.