- Information
- mountain in northern Greece, home of the Olympian Gods
- Cult site of
- 👥 the Muses
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Athena 👥 the Muses
- Place of death of
- 👥 the Giants 👥 the Mares of Diomedes
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Orpheus
- Settled by
- 👤 Aineias 👤 Anchises (Trojan) 👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias)
- Settled from
- 🌍 Troy (Troad)
- Personification
- 👤 Olympos (mountain god)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Cronos 👤 Hera 👤 Zeus
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏺 the Bones of Orpheus 🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Olympos)
- Encompases
- 🏛️ the Forge of Hephaistos (Mount Olympos) 🏛️ the Palaces of the Gods (Olympos) 🌍 River Bephyras (Mt Olympos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Olympos) 🏛️ the House of Hephaistos (Olympos) 🌍 Flevia (Thrace)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Achilles 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aineias 👤 Aison 👤 Alcmene 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Anchises (Trojan) 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Artemis 👤 Asclepios 👤 Athena 👤 Bellerophon 👤 Bia 👤 Briareos 👤 Calypso (d. of Atlas) 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👥 the Charites 👥 the Corybantes 👤 Cottos 👤 Cratos 👤 Cronos 👤 Demeter 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Dione (Titan) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Electra (Atlantid) 👤 Endymion 👤 Ephialtes (Boiotian) 👥 the Erinyes 👤 Hera 👤 Hestia 👤 Mnemosyne 👤 Poseidon 👤 Hades 👤 Rhea 👤 Themis 👤 Zeus 👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros) 👥 the Giants 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Harmonia (Theban) 👤 Hebe 👤 Hector (Trojan) 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan) 👤 Iris 👤 Ixion (Lapith) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Orpheus 👤 Otos (Boiotian) 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Patroclos (Myrmidon) 👤 Pegasos (horse) 👥 the Horai 👥 the Muses 👤 Persephone 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Priam 👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer) 👤 Leto 👤 Magnes (s. of Thyia) 👥 the Mares of Diomedes 👤 Medeia 👥 the Moirai 👤 Nike (personification) 👤 Odysseus 👤 Seilenos 👤 Styx (Oceanid) 👤 Tantalos (Lydian) 👤 Thetis 👥 the Titans 👤 Zelos 🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus 🏛️ the Forge of Hephaistos (Mount Olympos) 🏺 the Winged Sandals 🏺 the Lyre of Apollo 🏺 the Pan Flute of Apollo 🏺 the Golden Wand of Hermes 🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Cyprus (island) 👤 Helios 🌍 River Scamandros (Troad) 🌍 the Plain of Troy 🌍 the Beach of Troy 🌍 the Citadel of Troy 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🏺 the Second Armour of Achilles 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia) 🌍 Onchestos (Boiotia) 🌍 Ocaleai (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Peneios (Elis) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 Cenaion (Euboia) 🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 Pieria (N. Greece) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily) 🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly) 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Ogygia (island) 🏺 the Chariot drawn by Winged Serpents 🌍 River Simoeis (Troad) 🌍 River Spercheios (C. Greece) 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Mount Phicion (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Cyllene (Arcadia) 🌍 the Grove of Tilphousan Apollo (Boiotia) 👥 the Cattle of Apollo 🌍 the Troad 🏺 the Aegis 🌍 Mycalessos (Boiotia) 🌍 Haliartos (Boiotia) 🌍 Anthedon (Boiotia) 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 River Cephisos (Phocis/Boiotia) 🌍 Lilaia (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 🏛️ the Palaces of the Gods (Olympos) 🌍 Lake Boibe (Thessaly) 👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) 🌍 the Lipari Islands 👤 Paieon (healer) 🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia) 👤 Eros 👤 Hypnos 👤 Ate 🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly) 👥 the Olympian Gods 👤 Deimos 👤 Phobos 🌍 Emathia (N. Greece) 🌍 Mount Athos (Chalcidice) 🌍 Erebos (Underworld) 🏺 the Automatic Tripods of Hephaistos 👤 Charis 🏺 the Shield of Achilles 🏺 the Head of Zeus 🌍 Leibethra (Macedonia) 🌍 Pimpleia (Macedonia) 👤 Polyboia (d. of Amyclas) 🌍 Mount Lycaion (Arcadia) 👤 Attis 🏺 the Golden Trap Throne 🌍 Mount Mainalion (Arcadia) 🌍 the Rarian Plain (Eleusis) 🌍 Teumessos (Boiotia) ⏳ the Search of Demeter for Persephone 🌍 Mount Pieria (N. Greece) 🏺 the Bones of Orpheus 🌍 Phlegyas (Boiotia) 🌍 Lake Cephisis (Boiotia) 🏛️ the Grove of Poseidon (Onchestos) 👥 the Thracian Women 🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Pieria) 🌍 River Helicon (Macedonia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Olympos) 🏛️ the House of Alexander and Helen (Troy) 🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos) 🌍 Lectos (unlocatable) 🌍 Perraibia (Thessaly) 🌍 the Lelantine Plain (Euboia) 🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia) 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 👥 the Thriai 🏛️ the Temple of Apollo Pagasai near Trachis (Thessaly) 🌍 Typhaonion 👤 Macedon (s. of Thyia) 🌍 River Apidanos (N. Greece) 🌍 River Amphryssos (Thessaly) 👥 the Satyrs 🏺 the Chains of Hephaistos 🏛️ the House of Dryops (Arcadia) 🏺 the Chariot of Helios 🏛️ the Cave of Maia (Arcadia) 👤 Sabazios 🌍 Parrhasia (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete) 🌍 River Cairatos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Olympos (Mysia) 🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly) 👤 Euanthe (m. of Charites) 👤 Onnes (Cabeiros) 👤 Tottes 🏺 the Bow of Apollo 🌍 River Amnisos (Crete) 🏛️ the Cave of Pan (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Dindymon (near Cyzicos) 🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace) 🌍 the Taurus Mountains 👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias) 🌍 the Alps 🌍 Enianai (Thessaly?) 👥 the Horses of Helios 🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 the Apennine Mountains 🌍 Laurentum (Italy) 🌍 River Numicius (Italy) 🌍 River Enipeus (Thessaly)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.8 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.7.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.3.5 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.7.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.12.2 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.12.3 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 535-566 📖 Pausanias 3.18.11 📖 Pausanias 3.19.5 📖 Pausanias 1.20.3 📖 Homer, Odyssey 5.28-5.148 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.305-11.320 📖 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 334-356 📖 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 441-469 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 1-18 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 91-126 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 182-206 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 214-299 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 300-355 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 322-396 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 503-512 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 513-549 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 550-567 📖 Homeric Hymn 28 to Athena 1-18 📖 Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite 201-217 📖 Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite 1-20 📖 Homeric Hymn 12 to Hera 1-5 📖 Homeric Hymn 15 to Heracles 1-9 📖 Homeric Hymn 19 to Pan 1-49 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 27-56 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 201-206 📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 820-839 📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 457-466 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 7 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 22 Most 📖 Euripides, Hippolytos 58-85 📖 Homer, Iliad 1.396-1.406 📖 Homer, Iliad 1.493-1.530 📖 Homer, Iliad 1.592-1.594 📖 Homer, Iliad 1.605-1.608 📖 Homer, Iliad 5.381-5.415 📖 Homer, Iliad 5.416-5.425 📖 Homer, Iliad 5.899-5.906 📖 Homer, Iliad 5.352-5.374 📖 Homer, Iliad 5.711-5.777 📖 Homer, Iliad 8.397-8.424 📖 Homer, Iliad 14.224-14.241 📖 Homer, Iliad 18.165-18.180 📖 Homer, Iliad 14.211-14.221 📖 Homer, Iliad 19.125-19.144 📖 Homer, Iliad 20.1-20.12 📖 Homer, Iliad 20.215-20.240 📖 Homer, Iliad 15.113-15.120 📖 Homer, Iliad 24.141-24.188 📖 Pausanias 3.19.3-3.19.4 📖 Pausanias 9.30.4-9.30.12 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 29-52 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 53-62 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 383-403 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 286-286 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 617-653 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 775-793 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 138 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 140 Most 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 299-321 📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 396-413 📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 114-150 📖 Hesiod, Great Ehoiai fr. 198 Most 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 19 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 8.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 8.2 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 9.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 9.2 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 10.1-2 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 10.3 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 10.5 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 15 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 17.3 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 11.1 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 6 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 8 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 9 📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 21 📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 2 📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 23 📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 27 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 55-69 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 136-169 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 215-248 📖 Lucian, The Hall 9 📖 Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors 1 📖 Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors 3 📖 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended 20 📖 Pindar, Olympian 1 23-66 📖 Pindar, Olympian 2 1-22 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 41-169 📖 Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart 14 📖 Lucian, Gout 138-190 📖 Pindar, Olympian 13 40-92 📖 Pindar, Pythian 11 55-64 📖 Pindar, Nemean 10 55-90 📖 Pindar, Isthmian 4 43-72 📖 Pindar, Isthmian 7 40-51 📖 Pindar fr. 30 Snell-Maehler 📖 Pindar fr. 52f Snell-Maehler 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.590 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.609 📖 Pomponius Mela 2.36 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.151-1.176 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.199-1.243 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271 📖 Strabo 10.3.17 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.416-4.542 📖 Vergil, Georgics 1.276-1.286 📖 Ovid, Amores 2.1 📖 Strabo 13.1.52-13.1.53 📖 Ovid, Amores 2.16 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.566-14.608 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.159-233
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Hesiod, Theogony Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Euripides, Trojan Women Hesiod, Great Ehoiai Euripides, Hippolytos Pausanias Pindar Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes Homeric Hymn 28 to Athena Homeric Hymn 5 to Aphrodite Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite Homeric Hymn 12 to Hera Homeric Hymn 15 to Heracles Homeric Hymn 19 to Pan Hesiod, Shield of Heracles Hesiod, Ehoiai Strabo Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead Lucian, On Sacrifices Lucian, Zeus Rants Lucian, Icaromenippus Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Lucian, The Hall Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended Pindar, Olympian 1 Pindar, Olympian 2 Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart Lucian, Gout Pindar, Olympian 13 Pindar, Pythian 11 Pindar, Nemean 10 Pindar, Isthmian 4 Pindar, Isthmian 7 Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Metamorphoses Ovid, Amores Vergil, Georgics
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.68-4.89 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.305-11.320 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.601-11.627 📖 Homer, Iliad 1.592-1.594 📖 Homer, Iliad 3.421-3.427 📖 Homer, Iliad 13.240-13.245
- Depictions
- 🎨 Attic Black-Figure Krater by Cleitias (Florence 4209; Beazley 300000; LIMC Antenor I 2) 🎨 Attic Black-Figure Skyphos attributed to the CHC Group (Nicholson NM46.44) 🎨 Attic Black-Figure Belly Amphora attributed to the Group E Painters (Logie 42.57; Beazley 350424; LIMC Eurytion II 37) 🎨 Attic Red-Figure Column Krater attributed to the Leningrad Painter (Cyclades 1117)
- Reported depictions
- 🏺 the Shield of Heracles 🎨 Wall Painting of Dionysos and Hephaistos in the Sanctuary of Dionysos, Athens (LIMC Dionysos 570) 🎨 Throne of Apollo at Amyclai (LIMC Acheloos 219)
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Larisa (Thessaly)