- This article is about the Greek Titan. For the mountain in Greece, see Mount Olympus.
Olymbros was a Titan and the Cretan mentor of Zeus. Olymbros later began an uprising, seeking to dethrone Zeus, but was defeated and killed. He is the son of Gaia and Ouranós. He is probably the same figure as Olympos.
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"The tomb which passes for that of Zeus in Krete (Crete) is that of Olympos of Krete, who received Zeus son of Kronos (Cronus), raised him and taught divine things to him; but Zeus, he says, struck down his foster-parent and master because he had pushed the Gigantes (Giants) to attack him in his turn; but when he had struck, before his body he was full of remorse and, since he could appease his sorrow in no other way, he gave his own name to the tomb of his victim." [N.B. The Gigantes of this myth may have been the Kouretes (Curetes) or the Titanes.]
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 71. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) : "Before the battle against the Gigantes in Krete (Crete) [i.e. the Titanes], we are told, Zeus sacrificed a bull to Helios (Sun) and to Ouranós (Sky) and to Ge (Earth)."
Ovid, Fasti 3. 793 ff (trans. Melville) (Roman poet C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : [Cf. Kronos and the Titanes in the following passage with Hephaestion's Olympos and hte Gigantes.]
"Saturnus [Kronos] was thrust from his realm by Jove [Zeus]. In anger he stirs the mighty Titanes to arms and seeks the assistance owed by fate."
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- Olympos at Theoi