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1121 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter P
   Pythium derived its name from a temple of Apollo Pythius situated on one of the summits of Olympus, as we learn from an epigram of Xeinagoras, a Greek mathematician, who measured the height of Olympus from these parts (ap. (19.92)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *e, entry e)pibai/nw
   . c. acc.loci, light upon, in twice of gods lighting upon earth after their descent from Olympus, (16.74)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *d, entry -de
   to Olympus, (15.89)

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4 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Doctor Faustus (B text) (ed. Hilary Binda) line 170
   Wag. Learned Faustus
   To know the secrets of Astronomy
   Grauen in the booke of Ioues high firmament,
   Did mount himselfe to scale Olympus top,
   Being seated in a chariot burning bright,
   Drawne by the strength of yoaky Dragons necks,
   He now is gone to proue Cosmography,
   And as I gesse will first arriue at Rome,
   To see the Pope and manner of his Court;
   And take some part of holy Peters feast,
   That to this day is highly solemnized.
   (5.21)

2. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (A text) (ed. Hilary Binda) line 376
   Wag. Learned Faustus,
   To know the secrets of Astronomy,
   Grauen in the booke of Ioues hie firmament,
   Did mount himselfe to scale Olympus top,
   Being seated in a chariot burning bright,
   Drawne by the strength of yoky dragons neckes,
   He now is gone to prooue Cosmography,
   And as I guesse, wil first ariue at Rome,
   To see the Pope, and manner of his court,
   And take some part of holy Peters feast,
   That to this day is highly solemnizd.
   (4.82)

3. Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage act 3, scene 1, line 143
   Illioneus This man and I were at Olympus games.
   (2.94)

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25 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 34
   Olympus to a Mole-hill Steevens: This idea might have been caught from a line in the first book of Sidney's Arcadia, ‘What judge you doth a hillocke shew, by the lofty Olympus? (11.55)

2. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Lift
   wilt thou l. up Olympus, . (6.75)

3. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Olympus-high
   Olympus-high, high as Olympus: . (6.19)

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1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Appendices section SOURCE OF THE PLOT, subsection Plutarch
   She had a Phisition called Olympus, whom she made priuie of her intent, to the end he should helpe her to rid her out of her life: as Olympus writeth himselfe, who wrote a booke of all these things. (4.54)

7 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 34
   Olympus to a Mole-hill Steevens: This idea might have been caught from a line in the first book of Sidney's Arcadia, ‘What judge you doth a hillocke shew, by the lofty Olympus? (10.68)

2. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section CHARACTER OF CORIOLANUS, subsection Hudson
   When, upon her coming out to intercede with him, he says, ‘My mother bows; as if Olympus to a molehill should in supplication nod,’ we have the sub- limity of filial reverence, imaged in a form not more magnificent in itself than characteristic of the speaker. (4.94)

3. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 5, scene 3, commline 34
   Gifford, p. 20]; The Roman Actor, III, i, 1-4: ‘if you but compare What I have suffered with your injuries (Though great ones, I confess) they will appear Like molehills to Olympus. (4.82)

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10 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 4 chapter 30, page 387
   Thus we read in The Circus, or the British Olympus, professedly a satire on the Ring -- Manlius through all the city doth proclaim
   His arms, his equipage, and ancient name;
   For search the Court of Honour, and you'll see
   Manlius his name, but not his pedigree.
   (8.09)

2. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 6 chapter 16, page 209
   The gods themselves assembled on Olympus presented not a more glorious sight than the laughing divinities of One-Tree Hill. (5.34)

3. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 24, object 2
   Indeed, throughout the marbles of the Parthenon, the sculptor appears to have embodied in his works the most striking characteristics with which the great Greek poet had stamped the divinities of Olympus. (4.45)

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7 from American Memory: California

1. Two years in California. By Mary Cone page 209
   There never were such steaks and such mutton-chops; and as for the cream pies and wonderful cakes, they would be fit company for the nectar of the gods at the feasts in Olympus. (3.10)

2. California: a pleasure trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate, April, May, June, 1877. By Mrs. Frank Leslie. Facsimile with an introduction by Madeleine B. Stern page 23
   The merry pic-nic was just concluded when the conductor appeared, loaded with plates, knives, forks, etc., and it was speedily voted that the repast already taken was but a lunch, and all found appetite, after an amazingly short interval, for a dinner fit, as some enthusiastically declared, for the Gods on Mount Olympus. (2.94)

3. Wonderland; or, Twelve weeks in and out of the United States. Brief account of a trip across the continent--short run into Mexico--ride to the Yosemite Valley--steamer voyage to Alaska, the land of glaciers--visit to the Great Shoshone Falls and a stage ride through the Yellowstone national park. By Edward S. Parkinson page 194
   What Olympus was to the ancient Greeks, Edgecombe is to the uncivilized tribes of Alaska. (2.65)

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3 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 768
   He gave me a short poem ‘Olympus,’ which he had written for his mother-in-law. (2.65)

2. Autobiography of Erastus O. Haven, D.D., LL.D., one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church page 329
   Dio the Athenian; or, From Olympus to Calvary. (2.52)

3. Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842 page 657
   One would think that if the muses are ever routed from the bare hills of Olympus and the springs of Helicon, they would take shelter in the glens of Michilimackinack, where the Indian pukwees, or fairies, danced of old. (2.39)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. A brief outline of the rise, progress, and failure of the revolutionary scheme of the nineteen Van Buren electors of the Senate of Maryland, in the months of September, October and November 1836 page 17
   Unwilling that evils and inequalities, oppression and injustice, should be piled, like Ossa on Olympus; on the people until sufferance would no longer be esteemed a virtue, we have taken the responsibility to exert all the power with which you have clothed us, to ensure the permanent peace at the same time that we hope to have provided the means to perpetuate equal
   3 laws and equal privileges to the whole of the State, with whose destinies we are all deeply identified. (4.02)

2. Samuel Mordecai, Virginia, especially Richmond in by-gone days; with a glance at the present: being reminiscences and last words of an old citizen page 289
   One of the mortals who was a companion of the heathen deities in this terrestrial Olympus, suffered the fate of mortality, and his clay being mortal, can be traced. (2.04)

1 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 43952
   A - HERAKLES MOUNTING CHARIOT, ATHENA, ARES, HERMES, GODDESS (INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES TO OLYMPUS) (3.53)