page_title: Mount Lycabettus
section_title: Mythical and legendary stories
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Lycabettus / Mythical and legendary stories
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Λυκαβηττός, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα. English: Athens, Greece. Panorama from the top of Mount Lycabettus, looking southwest. Visible sites on the right part of photo: the Panathinaiko Stadium, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Hellenic Parliament, the Syntagma Square, the Acropolis and the Parthenon. Français&#160;: Athènes, Grèce. Panorama à partir du sommet du Mont Lycabette, en regardant vers le sud ouest. Sites visibles sur la partie droite de la photo: le stade panathénaïque, le temple de Zeus olympien, le Parlement hellénique, la Place Syntagma, l'Acropole et le Parthénon.
context_page_description: Mount Lycabettus, also known as Lycabettos, Lykabettos or Lykavittos, is a Cretaceous limestone hill in the Greek capital Athens. At 300 meters above sea level, its summit is the highest point in Athens and pine trees cover its base. The name also refers to the residential neighbourhood immediately below the east of the hill.
  The hill is a tourist destination and can be ascended by the Lycabettus Funicular, a funicular railway which climbs the hill from a lower terminus at Kolonaki. At its two peaks are the 19th century Chapel of St. George, a theatre, and a restaurant.
context_section_description: Lycabettus appears in various legends. Popular stories suggest it was once the refuge of wolves, (lycos in Greek), which is possibly the origin of its name (means "the one [the hill] that is walked by wolves"). Another etymology suggests a Pelasgian, pre-Mycenean, origin (Lucabetu=mastoid hill).
  Mythologically, Lycabettus is credited to Athena, who created it when she dropped a limestone mountain she had been carrying from the Pallene peninsula for the construction of the Acropolis after the box holding Erichthonius was opened.
caption: Panorama from Mount Lycabettus, with a view of the Panathinaiko Stadium, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Hellenic Parliament and the Acropolis of Athens.
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