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Mount Olympus

Ὄλυμπος

Greece's highest peak, where the gods were believed to dwell above the clouds.

It is not an imaginary place but a real mountain, in northern Greece, 2,917 meters high.

Homer wrote that up there is neither snow nor rain — only cloudless, perfect clarity.

The Olympics were held not on this mountain but at Olympia in the Peloponnese. What they share is being sacred ground of Zeus.

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