Olympané

Oltář dvanácti bohů (Louvre, Paříž, 1. stol. n. l.)

Olympané nebo olympští bohové nebo dvanáct olympských bohů či dvanáct olympanů (řecky Δωδεκάθεον, Dódekatheon) je název pro dvanáct nejvýznamnějších bohů v řecké mytologii. Dvanáct nejvyšších bohů měli vedle Řeků také Etruskové a Římané, a tyto dvanáctky byly obvykle ztotožňovány.

Tito bohové jsou označováni jako olympané podle toho, že sídlí na hoře Olymp. Nejvyšší z těchto bohů je Zeus, který zbavil svého otce Krona vlády nad světem, pak tam mají své místo někteří jeho sourozenci (včetně jeho manželky Héry), některé děti a bohyně Afrodíté zrozená z mořské pěny oplodněné useknutými genitáliemi boha Úrana. Některé seznamy uvádějí jako dvanáctou olympanku Diovu sestru Hestii, jiné upřednostňují jeho syna Dionýsa. Jmenovitě jsou tak součástí olympského panteonu:

  1. Zeus (syn Krona a Rheie, manžel Héry)
  2. Héra (dcera Krona a Rheie, manželka Dia)
  3. Poseidón (syn Krona a Rheie, manžel Amfitríté)
  4. Démétér (dcera Krona a Rheie)
  5. Pallas Athéna (dcera Dia a Métis)
  6. Foibos Apollón (syn Dia a Létó)
  7. Héfaistos (syn Dia a Héry, manžel Afrodíté)
  8. Hermés (syn Dia a Maie)
  9. Arés (syn Dia a Héry)
  10. Artemis (dcera Dia a Létó)
  11. Afrodíté (dcera Úrana a mořské pěny, manželka Héfaista)
  12. Dionýsos ( syn Dia a jeho milenky Semely)

Diův bratr Hádés a jeho manželka Persefoné se mezi olympany tradičně neřadí. Háda lze sice řadit k nejmocnějším a nejdůležitějším řeckým bohům, své sídlo má však ve své podsvětní říši, kde je neomezeným vladařem.

Na Olympu však přebývá také několik dalších božstev, která jsou často zosobněnými vlastnostmi bohů, případně se jedná o strážce Olympu či zdejší sloužící. V některých případech se jedná o Diovy nemanželské děti vzaté na Olymp. Zde je kompletní výčet ostatních obyvatel Olympu:

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Statue of Hestia. Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
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Illustration of the binding of Prometheus by John Flaxman, first published in Richard Porson's 1795 translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Prometheus is shown in the center with Kratos and Bia on either side holding him down and Hephaestus behind him chaining him to the mountainside.
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Coin showing Dione on throne.
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Black chalk drawing of the binding of Prometheus by George Romney, dating to circa 1798-1799. Kratos and Bia are at his feet, holding him down as Hephaestus binds his arms to the side of the rock.
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Iris, Attic lekythos in Six's technique (superposed colours). From Tanagra.
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Bust of Athena, type of the “Velletri Pallas” (inlaid eyes are lost). Copy of the 2nd century CE after a votive statue of Kresilas in Athens (ca. 430–420 BC).
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Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
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which sacerdotal influence seeks to record andprolong. With the Greeks, however, over whom none of this influencewas exercised, such an attribute becomes an object of secondary im-portance, and is considered the effect of caprice, or of the modesty ofa young female ; and the poets at one time throw doubts on its reality,and at another upon its duration. Yet, virgin as she is, Diana pre-sides over the birth of children, a combination in which no one canmistake the union of the power which destroys with that which creates.We see, then, how incoherent are the traces of sacerdotal ideas,which survive this strange metamorphosis. The Hertha of Scythia,the Bendis of Thrace, the Isis of Egypt, the Diana of Ephesus, thatmotionless, enigmatical, and fettered mummy, become, beneath Gre-cian skies, a young and active huntress, who, in her course as rapid asthe winds, pursues on the mountain tops the timid inhabitants of thewoods. Diana is always represented as taller by the head than her attend-
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ARTEMIS OR DIANA. 200 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. ants ; her face somewhat manly, her legs bare, well shaped and strong,her feet sometimes bare, and sometimes covered with the cothurnus*or buskin of the ancient hunters. By poets and artists, she is repre-sented as armed with bow and arrows, and has threescore nymphs inher train. She is also represented with a quiver and attended bydogs, and sometimes drawn in a chariot by two white stags or hernymphs. Again, she appears with, wings, holding a lion with one handand a panther in the other; or in a chariot drawn by two horses, onewhite and one black. The representations of this goddess are generally known by thecrescent on her head, by the dogs which attend her, and by herhunting habit. Isis, Diana, and the Bull Apis, are decorated with thecrescent, which announced the commencement of a new moon. Thedogs and buskins more particularly mark the goddess of the chase, asthe crescent was often used by the ancients as an ornament to thefemale

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