Olympius
Ὀλύμπιος
(Ὀλύμπιος), the Olympian, occurs as a surname of Zeus (Hornm. Il. 1.353), Heracles (Hdt. 2.44), the Muses (Olympiades, Il. 2.491), and in general of all the gods that were believed to live in Olymitpus, ill contriadistinction from the gods of the lower world. (Il. 1.399; conimp. Paus. 1.18.7, 5.14.6, 6.20.2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.