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Definition of Olympus

1. Noun. A mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high).

Definition of Olympus

1. Proper noun. The highest mountain in Greece; in Ancient Greek mythology the home of the gods. ¹

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Literary usage of Olympus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"Another ancient master, however, the Phrygian musician Olympus, so much enlarged the system of the Greek music, that Plutarch considers him, ..."

2. The Problem of the Homeric Poems by William Duguid Geddes (1878)
"There is nothing [in the Odyssey] which obliges us to think of the Mount Olympus.' 157. Thus far as to the position of Olympus in the ..."

3. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)," by Ian Hay (1916)
"The Olympus which controls the destinies of "K(l)" differs in many respects from the Olympus of antiquity, but its celestial inhabitants appear to have at ..."

4. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient [sic] Greece by William Mure (1854)
"ON THE RELATIVE AGES OF Olympus AND TERPANDER. THE priority of age assigned by KO Mailer1 to Terpander over Olympus, is at variance with every fact or ..."

5. A System of Ancient and Mediaeval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1871)
"The two principal passes which led over Mount Olympus into the territory of the ... The latter led to Pythium in Thessaly by the back of Olympus, ..."

6. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The honor of introducing the enharmonic into Greek music is universally attributed to Olympus, a Phrygian flute-player. Olympus came playing the flute from ..."

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