The twelve most important gods

and godesses of ancient

Greece,

called the Olympians, belonged to the same large, quarrelsome family.

Greece,

and godesses of ancient

The twelve most important gods

Though thinking little of the

smaller, old-fashioned gods

over whom they ruled, they

thought even less of mortals.

All the Olympians lived together in an enormous palace, set well above the usual level of clouds at the top of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece.

Great walls, too steep for climbing,

protected the palace. The Olympians'

masons, gigantic one-eyed Cyclopes,

had built them on much the same plan

as royal palaces on earth.