Olympus
Ὄλυμπος
Olympus (Ὄλυμπος, Strab. xiv. pp. 682, 683; Ptol. 5.14.5), a mountain range in the lofty island of Cyprus. On one of its eminences--breast-shaped (μαστοειδής)--was a temple to Aphrodite of the heights
(ἀκραία), into which women were not permitted to enter. (Strab. l.c.) This probably implies that all but the hierodulae
were excluded. (Comp. Claudian, Nupt. Hon. et Mar. 49--85; Achill. Tat. 7.13.) According to Pococke (Trav. vol. ii. p. 212; comp. Mariti, Viaggi, vol. i. p. 206), this part of the chain is now called Haghios Stavros, or Sta. Croce, from a convent dedicated to the Cross. (Engel, Kypros, vol. i. pp. 33--37).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.