Ok, I'm not going to bother with the *SPOILER* tags and whatnot in this post, as it's far enough down in this thread that anyone reading it has either read the comic or doesn't mind spoilers.
As far as States being arrogant, keep in mind that he said he absorbed some of Zeus's spirit as well. Zeus wasn't exactly a humble god by any stretch of the imagination, and arrogance/pride were considered classical heroic virtues in Greek mythology.