Olympus (http://s481.photobucket.com/albums/rr178/MercuriusTJ/Greek%20Gods/Olympians/?action=view&current=Olympus.jpg&sort=ascending)

• 12 gods and goddesses resided there
• Identified with Mount Olympus, but was located in the sky above
• Not a heaven, Neutral to Heaven, Seas, and the Underworld
• (http://thanasis.com/store/olympus.htm) 

• Zues, Hea,  Poseidon, Athena, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Hemes, Aphrodite, Hepsaestus, and  Hestia all resided on the Mountain
• Hades prefered to stay in the underworld but would come up occasionaly 
• (http://www.crystalinks.com/olympians.html) 

• After Zeus conquered the Titians, the gods made Mount Olympus their home. 
• Zeues' throne was at highest peak of the mountain 
• home of the gods
• (Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition) 

• Hidden by clouds so that men on earth could not see it
• Poseidon usually lived in the sea but apperared when all the gods were assembled
• (Place-Names in Classical Mythology: Greece Bell, Robert E)