Olympian Definition

Olympian Sentence Examples

• She is rarely mentioned in Homer, nor is she included amongst the Olympian gods.

• The Olympian forge had been transferred to Etna or some other volcano, and Hephaestus had become a subterranean rather than a celestial power.

• As a thank-offering for the overthrow of Greek freedom, it might seem strangely placed in the Olympian Altis.

• It is probable that the face, neck, arms and feet were of ivory, while the rest of the figure was draped in gold, Like the Olympian Zeus of Pheidias, Hera was seated on an elaborately decorated throne, holding in her left hand the sceptre, surmounted in her case by the cuckoo (as that of Zeus had an eagle), and in her right, instead of an elaborate figure of Victory (such as the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus held), simply a pomegranate.

• With a kind of trumpet formed out of a shell he terrified the Titans in their fight with the Olympian gods.