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The Twelve Olympians were the principal gods of the Greek pantheon, residing atop Mount Olympus.

It was the obvious choice for the home of the main Greek gods (the twelve Olympians).
Alone among the Twelve Olympians, Apollo was venerated among the Hyperboreans: he spent his winter amongst them.
In many familiar epic poems set in the "age of heroes," the twelve Olympians are said to have appeared in person.
Adonis). The most impressive temples tended to be dedicated to a limited number of gods: the twelve Olympians, Heracles, Asclepius and occasionally Helios.
She is invoked as the "bringer of season s" in the Homeric hymn, a subtle sign that she was worshiped long before the Twelve Olympians Olympians arrived.

Dionysus replaced Hestia as one of the twelve Olympians.
Dionysus was the only one of the twelve Olympians to be born from a mortal woman, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia.
DIONYSUS (BACCHUS). Youngest of the twelve Olympians, god of wine and divine ecstasy, and patron of wine cultivation, revels, and religious mysteries.


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