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🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece)

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Information
mountain in northern Greece, home of the Olympian Gods
Pleiades
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/491677
Cult site of
👥 the Muses
Place of birth of
👤 Athena👤 Dionysos (Olympian)👥 the Muses
Place of death of
👥 the Mares of Diomedes👥 the Giants
Place of burial of
👤 Orpheus
Settled by
👤 Aineias👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias)👤 Anchises (Trojan)👥 the Companions of Aineias
Settled from
🌍 Troy (Troad)
Ruled by
👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Hera👤 Cronos
Relics preserved on site
🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Olympos)🏺 the Bones of Orpheus
Encompasses
🏛️ 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) 🏛️ the Palace of Aphrodite 🌍 Flevia (Thrace)
Related entities
👤 Hera👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Hephaistos🌍 Lemnos (island)👤 Ephialtes (Boiotian)👤 Otos (Boiotian)🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Ossa (Thessaly)👥 the Mares of Diomedes👤 Heracles👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros)🌍 the Troad👤 Athena🏺 the Palladion (statue)👤 Electra (Atlantid)🌍 Troy (Troad)👤 Briareos👤 Poseidon👤 Thetis👤 Achilles👤 Agamemnon🏛️ the Palaces of the Gods (Olympos)👤 Hades👤 Paieon (healer)👤 Aphrodite👤 Dione (Titan)👤 Ares👤 Hebe👤 Mnemosyne👥 the Muses👤 Bia👤 Cratos👤 Nike (personification)👤 Styx (Oceanid)👥 the Titans👤 Zelos👤 Pegasos (horse)🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus👤 Demeter👤 Hestia👤 Iris🌍 River Styx (Underworld)👤 Diomedes (Argive I)🌍 the Plain of Troy🌍 River Scamandros (Troad)🌍 River Simoeis (Troad)🌍 Mount Ida (Troad)🌍 Thrace (N. Greece)🌍 Pieria (N. Greece)👤 Hypnos🌍 Emathia (N. Greece)🌍 Acte (Chalcidice)👤 Hector (Trojan)👤 Patroclos (Myrmidon)🌍 the Beach of Troy👤 Ate👤 Themis👥 the Olympian Gods👤 Deimos👤 Phobos👤 Priam🌍 the Citadel of Troy👤 Dionysos (Olympian)🏺 the Golden Trap Throne👤 Hermes👤 Artemis👤 Hyacinthos (Spartan)👥 the Horai👤 Persephone👥 the Moirai👤 Polyboia (d. of Amyclas)👤 Calypso (d. of Atlas)👤 Odysseus🏺 the Winged Sandals🏺 the Golden Wand of Hermes🌍 Ogygia (island)🌍 Leibethra (Macedonia)🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Olympos)🌍 Erebos (Underworld)⏳ the Search of Demeter for Persephone👤 Rhea🌍 the Rarian Plain (Eleusis)👤 Apollo👤 Eileithyia👤 Leto👤 Amphitrite🌍 Delos (island)👥 the Charites👤 Harmonia (Theban)🏺 the Lyre of Apollo🌍 Thebes (Boiotia)🌍 Onchestos (Boiotia)🌍 Ocaleai (Boiotia)🌍 Cenaion (Euboia)🌍 Mount Parnassos (Phocis)🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly)🌍 the Grove of Tilphousan Apollo (Boiotia)🌍 Mycalessos (Boiotia)🌍 Haliartos (Boiotia)🌍 Crisa (Phocis)🌍 River Cephisos (Phocis/Boiotia)🌍 Lilaia (Phocis)🌍 Teumessos (Boiotia)🌍 Phlegyas (Boiotia)🌍 Lake Cephisis (Boiotia)🏛️ the Grove of Poseidon (Onchestos)🌍 Lectos (unlocatable)🌍 Perraibia (Thessaly)🌍 the Lelantine Plain (Euboia)🌍 Euripos Strait (Euboia)🌍 Enianai (Thessaly?)👥 the Cattle of Apollo🏺 the Pan Flute of Apollo👥 the Thriai👤 Helios🏺 the Head of Zeus🏺 the Chariot of Helios👤 Pan (god)🏛️ the House of Dryops (Arcadia)👤 Alcmene🌍 Mount Phicion (Boiotia)🌍 Typhaonion🏺 the Shield of Heracles🏛️ the Temple of Apollo Pagasai near Trachis (Thessaly)👤 Magnes (s. of Thyia)🌍 Mount Pieria (N. Greece)👤 Macedon (s. of Thyia)🏺 the Bow of Apollo🏛️ the Cave of Maia (Arcadia)🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese)🌍 Pylos (Triphylia)👤 Endymion🌍 the Underworld👤 Cottos🌍 Cyprus (island)🏺 the Aegis👤 Ixion (Lapith)👤 Eros👤 Asclepios🏛️ the Forge of Hephaistos (Mount Olympos)👤 Tantalos (Lydian)👥 the Corybantes👤 Seilenos👤 Attis👤 Sabazios🏛️ the House of Alexander and Helen (Troy)👤 Pelops (Pisan)🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia)🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace)🌍 the Lipari Islands (Sicily)🌍 Parrhasia (region)🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete)🌍 River Cairatos (Crete)🌍 Mount Olympos (Mysia)🌍 River Amnisos (Crete)🏛️ the Cave of Pan (Arcadia)👤 Castor (Spartan)👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)👤 Bellerophon🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable)👤 Cronos👤 Coronos (s. of Caineus)👥 the Lapiths🌍 Crete (island)🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia)👥 the Achaians👥 the Dorians of Thessaly👤 Tectamos (Cretan)👥 the Giants🌍 Arcadia🌍 Mount Cyllene (Arcadia)🌍 Mount Lycaion (Arcadia)🌍 Mount Mainalion (Arcadia)🌍 Mount Cithairon (Attica/Boiotia)🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos)🌍 Mount Oita (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Aitna (Sicily)🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia)🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor)🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria)👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios)🌍 Mount Helicon (Boiotia)🌍 Mount Othrys (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos)🌍 Mount Pindos (Thessaly)🌍 Mount Rhodope (Thrace)🌍 the Taurus Mountains🌍 the Alps👥 the Horses of Helios🌍 Mount Eryx (Sicily)🌍 the Apennine Mountains🌍 Mount Dindymon (Bear Island)👥 the Satyrs🌍 Pimpleia (Macedonia)👤 Cerberos (dog)👥 the Erinyes👤 Aineias👤 Anchises (Trojan)👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias)👥 the Companions of Aineias🌍 Phrygia🌍 Laurentum (Italy)🌍 River Numicius (Italy)👤 Aison👤 Medeia🌍 River Peneios (Elis)🏺 the Chariot drawn by Winged Serpents🌍 River Spercheios (C. Greece)🌍 Anthedon (Boiotia)🌍 Lake Boibe (Thessaly)🌍 River Apidanos (N. Greece)🌍 River Amphryssos (Thessaly)🌍 River Enipeus (Thessaly)🏺 the Thigh of Zeus👤 Pothos🌍 River Axios (N. Greece)🌍 Mount Nysa (unlocatable)🏛️ the Corycian Cave (Mt Parnassos)🌍 River Loudias (N. Greece)👤 Orpheus🏺 the Lyre of Orpheus🌍 Corinth (Argolid)👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer)🏺 the Second Armour of Achilles🌍 Argos (city)🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece)🌍 Olympia (Elis)🏺 the Automatic Tripods of Hephaistos🏺 the Shield of Achilles🏺 the Chains of Hephaistos👤 Euanthe (m. of Charites)👤 Onnes (Cabeiros)👤 Tottes🌍 Pompeii (Campania)👤 Charis👥 the Thracian Women🌍 River Helicon (Macedonia)🏺 the Bones of Orpheus🏛️ the Tomb of Orpheus (Mt Pieria)
Mentioned by
📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.3.5📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.7.4📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.8📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.7.1📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.12.2📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.12.3📖 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📖 Hesiod, Theogony 29-52📖 Hesiod, Theogony 53-62📖 Hesiod, Theogony 383-403📖 Hesiod, Theogony 286-286📖 Hesiod, Theogony 617-653📖 Hesiod, Theogony 775-793📖 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📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 820-839📖 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 1.20.3📖 Pausanias 3.18.11📖 Pausanias 3.19.3-3.19.4📖 Homer, Odyssey 5.28-5.148📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.305-11.320📖 Pausanias 9.30.4-9.30.12📖 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 334-356📖 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 441-469📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 91-126📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 182-206📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 214-299📖 Pausanias 3.19.5📖 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 15 to Heracles 1-9📖 Homeric Hymn 19 to Pan 1-49📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 27-56📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 201-206📖 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 457-466📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 7 Most📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 22 Most📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 1-18📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 140 Most📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 299-321📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 114-150📖 Homeric Hymn 12 to Hera 1-5📖 Scholia on Apollonios, Argonautica 4.58📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 19📖 Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite 1-20📖 Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes 396-413📖 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 23📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 27📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 55-69📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 136-169📖 Lucian, The Hall 9📖 Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors 1📖 Lucian, Charon, or the Inspectors 3📖 Pindar, Olympian 1 23-66📖 Pindar, Olympian 2 1-22📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 41-169📖 Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart 14📖 Pindar, Olympian 13 40-92📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 215-248📖 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📖 Euripides, Hippolytos 58-85📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 138 Most📖 Diodoros, Library 4.37.3-4.37.5📖 Diodoros, Library 4.39.1-4.39.4📖 Diodoros, Library 4.75.1-4.75.6📖 Diodoros, Library 5.67.1-5.67.5📖 Diodoros, Library 5.71.1-5.71.6📖 Diodoros, Library 5.80.1-5.80.4📖 Pomponius Mela 2.36📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.113-1.176📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.177-1.243📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 535-566📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📖 Strabo 10.3.17📖 Vergil, Georgics 1.276-1.286📖 Ovid, Amores 2.1📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.416-4.542📖 Strabo 13.1.52-13.1.53📖 Ovid, Amores 2.16📖 Lucian, Gout 138-190📖 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture Defended 20📖 Lucian, Icaromenippus 2📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.394-9.449📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.155-10.161📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.566-14.608📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.159-7.233📖 Euripides, Bacchae 215-369📖 Euripides, Bacchae 370-432📖 Euripides, Bacchae 519-641📖 Ovid, Heroides 16.1-16.212
Mentioned in text
Apollodoros, LibraryHomer, IliadHesiod, TheogonyEuripides, Trojan WomenPausaniasHomer, Odyssey 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 15 to Heracles Homeric Hymn 19 to PanHesiod, Shield of HeraclesHesiod, EhoiaiAeschylus, Prometheus Bound Homeric Hymn 12 to HeraScholia on Apollonios, ArgonauticaPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Homeric Hymn 6 to AphroditeLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, Dialogues of the DeadLucian, On SacrificesLucian, Zeus RantsLucian, IcaromenippusCallimachus, Hymn to ZeusCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisLucian, The HallLucian, Charon, or the InspectorsPindar, Olympian 1Pindar, Olympian 2Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the HeartPindar, Olympian 13Callimachus, Hymn to DelosPindar, Pythian 11Pindar, Nemean 10Pindar, Isthmian 4Pindar, Isthmian 7PindarD-Scholia, IliadEuripides, HippolytosDiodoros, LibraryPomponius MelaOvid, MetamorphosesLycophron, AlexandraStraboVergil, GeorgicsOvid, AmoresLucian, GoutLucian, Essays in Portraiture DefendedEuripides, BacchaeOvid, Heroides
Reported to be mentioned in text
Homer, IliadHesiod, Great EhoiaiHomer, Odyssey
Mentioned in citation of
📖 Homer, Iliad 1.592-1.594📖 Hesiod, Great Ehoiai fr. 198 Most📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.601-11.627📖 Homer, Iliad 3.421-3.427📖 Homer, Iliad 13.240-13.245📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.305-11.320📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.68-4.89
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)🏺 the Shield of Heracles
Reported depictions
🎨 Wall Painting of Dionysos and Hephaistos in the Sanctuary of Dionysos, Athens (LIMC Dionysos 570)🎨 Sculptured Images on the Throne of Apollo at Amyclai (LIMC Acheloos 219)
Relevant to local traditions reported from
🌍 Larisa (Thessaly)
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