place

Olympus

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A mountain and, in Greek story, a seat of the gods. The geographic peak and the poetic court should not be collapsed into one address.

Hellenic religion

  • Olympus appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad attests Olympus as the seat of the gods, a mountain-court of Homeric speech. Greek poetic geography, not Asgard and not the geographic peak as a hiking address.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.