Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

12. Dionysus/Hestia The final seat in Olympus has two contenders: Dionysus, God of wine and ecstasy, and Hestia, goddess of the family hearth. Dionysus, though actually a demigod with a mortal mother, ...

We meet Homer, famous writer of Ancient Greece, who introduces us to the Olympians - twelve of the most important gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece - and also Ancient Greek beliefs about the ...

Before Zeus could rule as the king of the ancient Greek gods, he had to defeat his father and the Titans in a decade-long war ...

This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the Shell in Pompeii, depicts the goddess being born from a seashell. The Greek Olympian gods were a ...

A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived high above Mount Olympus, in a palace in the clouds. From here, they kept an eye on life below. From time to ...

As described by Homer, the gods and goddesses who ruled from Olympus possessed human traits such as lust, petulance, jealousy, and dishonesty. They also had a superhuman advantage: immortality.

Although there were Olympians who were stronger than the Goddess of War, she was still superior to Ares, the original God of ...

Killed in God of War: Chains Of Olympus. Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, wears armor when she fights Kratos in God of War: Chains of Olympus. She's designed to be a character with wings and ...

and the gods of Olympus. Two other novels have since been added to the original series, titled The Chalice of the Gods and Wrath of the Triple Goddess. These two books have been part of the Senior ...