It may be urged that Mount Olympus could not have referred to any mountain in Atlantis, because the Greeks gave that name to a group of mountains partly in Macedonia and partly in Thessaly.
The city's legend parallels other sacred places in different religious traditions, such as Valhalla in Norse mythology or Mount Olympus in Greek religion.
They often came down from Mount Olympus.
Mount Olympus remains Zeus’s Olympian home in the pantheon map.
I use Mount Lycaeus as sacred-mountain and Zeus-sanctuary geography beside Mount Olympus and Mount Ida.
Mount Olympus: Zeus’s Olympian home and pantheon neighbor to Arcadian Lycaeus.
Mount Olympus lies to the north.
They threatened to make war with the gods in Olympus, and tried to set Mount Ossa on the top of Mount Olympus, and Mount Pelion on the top of Ossa, that they might scale heaven itself, and they would have done it too if they had been grown up, but Apollo, son of Leto, killed both of them, before they had got so much as a sign of hair upon their cheeks or chin.
The Giants, attempting to overthrow the gods, piled Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa in an attempt to reach Mount Olympus.
On Mount Olympus Ganymede became his cupbearer.
Mount Olympus changed from a place of divine worship into a symbol of the pagan past.
In literature, Mount Olympus appears in works from the epic poems of Homer to modern novels and plays.
Mount Olympus was the home of the gods in Greek myth, and today it draws climbers and tourists.
Zeus ascended to the throne as the king of the gods, establishing a new divine order on Mount Olympus.
The term "Olympian gods" refers to the principal deities in ancient Greek mythology believed to reside on Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece.
Residence on Mount Olympus
The Olympian gods are so named because they live on Mount Olympus.
According to Greek mythology, after the Titans were overthrown during the Titanomachy (the war between the Titans and the Olympian gods), the victorious Olympians, led by Zeus, established their rule and chose Mount Olympus as their abode.
This victory marked the beginning of their reign and their association with Mount Olympus.
The Titanomachy was a ten-year-long war waged in Thessaly, where Mount Olympus and Mount Othrys (the stronghold of the Titans) faced each other.
With the Titans vanquished, Zeus and his siblings established their rule from Mount Olympus.
The ruler of Mount Olympus