Why is Mt. Olympus important?
MOUNT OLYMPUS Home of the Olympian Gods it is where all the gods lived long ago Olympus was the residence of the divine family, the twelve most important ruling gods and goddesses of ancient Greece, who therefore were called the Olympians. There they all lived together in an enormous palace, high above the clouds. Olympus is generally identified with Mount Olympus in Thessaly, which is the highest mountain in Greece, but very often it is identified also as some mysterious region far above the earth.It is written that Zeus talks to the gods from “the topmost peak of many-ridged Olympus,” and only a little later he says that if he willed he could hang the earth and sea from a pinnacle of Olympus, clearly not a mountain. In either case, Olympus is not the equivalent of heaven. According to the writer Homer, Poseidon says that he rules the sea, Hades the dead, Zeus the heavens, but Olympus is common to all three.The entrance to Olympus was a great gate of clouds, kept by the Seasons. Withi
