The high seat of the gods, somewhere above the clouds, where the Olympian council meets and where the fate of mortals gets decided over their heads. In the retelling we go there once, in chapter 8, when Athena finally loses patience with her father and stands before Zeus and the assembled gods and says plainly: the hero of Troy is rotting on Calypso’s island, and we are doing nothing. Zeus concedes. Hermes is dispatched in his golden sandals. The whole homecoming story turns on this single conversation in a place we never see in detail. Olympus is the room where the decision is made. We do not get its architecture. We get its consequences.
Olympus
The mountain home of the gods. Where Athena stands before Zeus and demands that Odysseus be let go.