where is mt olympus
Mount Olympus. Written By: Mount Olympus, Modern Greek Ãlympos, mountain peak, the highest (9,570 feet [2,917 m]) in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Gulf of ThÃ©rmai (Modern Greek: ThermaÃ¯kÃ³s) of the Aegean Sea and lies astride the border between Macedonia (MakedonÃ­a) and Thessaly (ThessalÃ­a).