Mount Olympus is part of the Olympic mountain range. It is located in Thessaly in northern Greece and is the tallest mountain in Greece, with its highest summit reaching to 9,573 feet above sea level.
In mythology, it is the home of the twelve Olympian gods and their servants and associates. Pieria, on its northern slope, is the home of the nine Muses.
The twelve Olympian gods are actually part of the third generation of Greek gods as recounted in Hesiod's Theogony. The first generation of Greek gods begins with Chaos, Night, and Love, forces which give birth to Gaea, the earth/mother goddess and the sky/father god Uranus. These give birth to the twelve Titans, who are the second generation of Greek gods. The Titans Cronus and Rhea give birth to Zeus and several of the other Olympic gods, who rebel against them.
The twelve Olympian gods are:
- Zeus, a sky god and the king of the gods
- Hera, the queen of the gods, associated with marriage
- Poseidon, the sea god
- Demeter, the goddess of agriculture
- Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom
- Apollo, the god of the sun, music, and prophecy
- Artemis, a virgin huntress
- Ares, the god of war
- Aphrodite, the god of love
- Hephaestus, the god of smiths
- Hermes, the messenger god, god of thieves and trickery
- Dionysus, the god of wine
Hades, another powerful god of the same generation, lives in the underworld rather than on Olympus.
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