Olympus
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- proper noun
- /oʊˈlɪm.pəs/
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- The highest peak of Olympus rises dramatically above the surrounding landscape, attracting climbers from around the world.
- Mount Olympus
It's before the Zeus enters and takes over, right on Olympus, right?
- It's before the Zeus enters and takes over, right on Olympus, right?
- So Zeus, he has parents and siblings, he's king of other gods, he lives on Mount Olympus.
- And each and every time Athena beats the living hell out of him and Aries goes crying up to to Zeus on Mount Olympus whining about his sister Athena.
- This matches up exactly with what Plato tells us about the rebellion of Atlantis against Olympus and how Zeus had to bring the Great Flood to destroy Atlantis.
- When a narcissistic person is betrayed, it can feel like mythological Mount Olympus God's kind of vindictiveness.
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Descend from Mount Olympus.
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I'd offer you ambrosia from the gods of Mount Olympus and conjure up dancing girls and woodland nymphs if you would spare these children of my father's house.
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Are you gonna come down from Mount Olympus or what?
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But the gods of Olympus are real.
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Got a little too close to Mount Olympus.
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We emerge from the shadows as gods on Mount Olympus.
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I have heard that you despise all of the gods in Olympus.
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The gods welcomed him into the halls of Mount Olympus and immortalized him in a constellation.
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In the ancient world, many believed that the gods resided on Olympus, watching over humanity.
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According to mythology, the Zeus ruled from the summit of Olympus, the sacred mountain of the gods.
Synonyms
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The highest mountain in Greece that ancient Greeks thought was the home of the Greek gods
A high mountain in northern Greece that old stories say is the home of the gods
A mountain in northeast Greece near the sea that ancient Greeks saw as the home of the gods
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The highest mountain in Greece that ancient Greeks thought was the home of the Greek gods
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Etymology
Olympus comes from the ancient Greek name Olympos, the high mountain that was told to be the 'home of the gods', so the name gives the peak a grand, divine meaning. You can see the same root in Olympian, which means 'like a god', and that connects the old myth to the mountain's meaning today.