Olympius

The Olympian, occurs as a surname of Zeus,1 Heracles,2 the Muses,3 and in general of all the gods that were believed to live in Olympus, in contradistinction from the gods of the lower world.

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad i, 353.
  2. Herodotus. Histories ii, 44.
  3. Olympiades, Iliad ii, 491.

Sources

  • Iliad i, 399; comp. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 18.7; v, 14.6; vi, 20.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.