Talk:Mount Olympus

message: The size and shape of the lake Mount Olympus are indicators for an HIDDEN volcano .
Inactive for +100k years at least on major Erupts.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.181.9.92 (talk) 19:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greece Mount Olympus - an hidden Super volcano with huge caldera 

message: What I know and what I find on the web is 2917 metres. Importantly, The CIA World Factbook and Encyclopedia Britannica, being influental sources, state 2917 metres... even the NASA website has this number mentioned. Practically the only source stating 2925 I can find is Wikipedia! Interestingly enough, Mount Musala in Bulgaria is 2925 metres high, and Mount Olympus is mentioned in Wikipedia as being as high as it, making them both the highest peaks of the Balkans. So, could someone please provide some serious evidence or otherwise correct this mistake?  → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → Talk 11:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Something to add after brief research: what's more, it's an anononymous user making these corrections (User:201.254.185.136), so it's very probably some kind of vandalism, as the Web actually lacks any evidence in support of the opinion. Other pages affected by these edits are List of mountains#Balkans, Musala, Geography of Greece and Balkans. Here  is the user's list of contributions.  → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → Talk 11:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nobody seems to be interested in replying, so I'm beginning to clean up the false info.  → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → Talk 08:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  It seems like a revert war's arising right here. I'm not willing to take part in a such, so please be so kind to leave some evidence on your changes, 201.254.150.38. I would accept your changes provided that you give some proof. Until then, I would be reverting to what's the established version - Musala at 2925 m, Olympus at 2917. Mountains are usually measured in height above mean sea level, not in any other feature.  → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → Talk 09:30, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mount Olympus - 2925 metres?

message: I have added a link to an account of climbing Mount Olympus and some additional information written by Dr. Despina Papathemelis when she was 15 years old. She has since this time qualified as a Doctor with a degree in Medicine from the Aristotelous University of Thessaloniki. The photograph was taken at the summit of the mountain when Despina was aged 8. 
Harfo32 19:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  8 year old Despina Papathemelis at the summit of Mount Olympus 

message: When was this mountain first climbed and by who?  I recall once reading a mention of it being scaled in the 1700's but by who I don't remember.
First recorded ascent is by the famous photographer Fred Boissonnas, Daniel Baud-Bovy and Christos Kakalos, in 1913 or 1914 (I've seen both).
87.212.152.246 (talk) 00:39, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First ascent?

message: Can someone explain me how do Greeks pronounce "Όλυμπος"? Does it sound like "oleebos" or "oleempos"? I mean, is that μ silent or not? Saigon from europe 15:30, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Greeks pronounce "Όλυμπος"? 

message: The Lesbos Island article mentions a mount Olympus there, with a little less then 1km. Shouldn't this be mentioned here too?... -- 201.62.134.161 (talk) 14:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lesbian Olympus 

message: What's with the "The Odyssey" quote? If I recall correctly, the Odyssey is a work of fiction, and thus should not be quoted as fact. Not to mention it was written a long time ago.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.34.66.56 (talk) 05:12, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote from The Odyssey is in the "Greek mythology" section: it seems OK in this context. The fact that the poets we now know collectively as "Homer" were described as "blind" in Hymn to Apollo doesn't diminish the relevance of the poetry describing the mountain.--Old Moonraker (talk) 22:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Odyssey 

message: Good morning!
It is mentioned in the article in Morphology part that Skolio is the second summit in Olympus mountain range with the height 2912 meters. But it is not true actually. According to camptocamp.org Skolio has 2905 meters while the Stefani, which is located on the north from Skolio, has 2912 meters. Thus, Stefani is the second summit and Skolio is the third. I am not sure that campocamp.org is WP:RS but you can find those numbers also from other sources. Since English is not my native language could someone correct the article if it's needed? Thank you and have a good day! --KpokeJlJla (talk) 07:30, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skolio height 

message: Our article currently says:
:"The Twelve Olympians were Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, and the twelfth was either Hestia or Dionysus."
I edited that  to read:
:"The most common group of Twelve Olympians was Zeus, Hera, Demeter, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, with either Hestia or Dionysus."
But my change was undone by .
There are two common misconceptions about the Twelve Olympians that our current text might be read to imply. First there was no canonical set of twelve Olympians, there were many different groupings, not just the two given here, and second, there was no canonical order with  either Hestia or Dionysus being the twelfth and last.
What do other editors think?
Paul August ☎ 11:42, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that sentence is largely off-topic. Just link to the Twelve Olympians and avoid the details entirely. —hike395 (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine with me. Paul August ☎ 01:29, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Twelve Olympians

message: It was proposed to copy this part of the article to Wikivoyage and delete the section partly or entirely in this article (<!-Some or all of this section should be moved to Wikivoyage.->). I agree with that, have copied the text into the Wikivoyage article (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Olympos_National_Park) and intend to remove the section mostly or entirely from this article about Mount Olympus at the end of the month. What is your opinion?--Juergen Weidner (talk) 20:15, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Access" from the article 

message: I feel this one isn't the best depiction of the mountain.  I like the one that the French Wikipedia uses: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Olympe#/media/File:Mountain_Olympus_snowy.JPG   2602:306:CFEA:170:A19F:9593:E6A0:BD26 (talk) 03:33, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introductory photo 

message: Jankaea is a member of a lragely tropical family Gesneriaceae (to which e.g. well know Saintpaulias belong) and therefore a relict from Tertiary, _not_ from the Ice Age - it only survived the Ice Age(s) there. See also the Wiki page on Ramonda heldreichii 5.203.255.140 (talk) 20:46, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jankaea as a relict 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Olympus § Requested move 14 January 2024.  InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:18, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[:Talk:Olympus#Requested move 14 January 2024|Talk:Olympus §&nbsp;Requested move 14 January 2024]]