The Olympian system is an ordered system.

He also built a drainage system, fountains and a temple to the Olympian gods.

The bus operations were divested as a management buy-out to form Leyland Bus, and was subsequently bought by Volvo Buses in 1988, which discontinued most of its product range but adopted the Leyland Olympian, re-engineering it as the first named Volvo Bus model, the Volvo Olympian aside from minor frame changes the major alterations were the fitment of volvo axles, braking system and controls.

A series of public access trails, the primary system being the Steve Bauer trails which are named after a Pelham Olympian, are built into the residential planning of Fonthill.

Olympian can refer to:

More impressive depictions of the Gigantomachy can be found in classical sculptural relief, such as the great altar of Pergamon, where the serpent-legged giants are locked in battle with a host of gods, or in Antiquity at the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Acragas.

Zeus can also control the mystical life energies of other Olympian gods, and has removed and restored much of his son Hercules ' divine attributes several times in the past.

It can perhaps be interpreted in the sense of stoicism, and was certainly not designed without political considerations, as was the case with all artistic image metaphors depicting the struggle between the good and just principle — the Olympian gods and their helpers — and evil — the chaotic forces of nature in the form of the earthbound giants.

Plato in his Laws advocates that the state should punish those who deny the existence of the Olympian Gods or believe that the Gods exist but think they are indifferent to mankind or can be easily bought by bribes.

The average Olympian, both male and female, can withstand extreme temperatures and high caliber bullets without sustaining injury.

The average Olympian can repair injuries that result in severe lacerations and loss of blood within a brief period of time without any scarring.

Severe injuries, such as severed limbs, can be magically regenerated if the injured Olympian receives treatment within a short period of time after the injury.

However, any Olympian can die if a significant portion of his or her bodily molecules are scattered.

She is no longer Earth-Born, but the creature, the handiwork of Olympian Zeus.

" Hestia's omission from some lists of the Twelve Olympians is sometimes taken as illustration of her passive, non-confrontational nature – by giving her Olympian seat to Dionysus she prevents heavenly conflict – but no ancient source or myth describes such a surrender or removal.

The third day, especially the evening and night that began the Greek day, was a meat feast in celebration of the Kalligeneia, a " goddess of beautiful birth " who appears in no other contexts and has no counterpart among the Olympian gods, further emphasizing the archaic, pre-Olympian nature of this festival that reinforced female solidarity.

However, others, like Steve Dollar, who reviewed These Are Special Times, stated that Dion is a " vocal Olympian for whom there ain't no mountain — or scale — high enough.

An option for 11. 3m version of Super Olympian was also available, but no orders were received.

Unlike other operators, none of SBS Transit's Super Olympian are wheelchair accessible and no wheelchair equipment is installed.

As in Aristophanes ' The Birds, the gods have been starved of sacrifices, since human beings have all directed their attention to Plutus, and they no longer pay homage to the traditional Olympian gods.

With the island blessed by the Olympian Gods, no man is allowed to physically set foot on it.

Its length was 110 m, and its breadth 55 m, so that it was actually longer than the great Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigentum, though not equal to it in breadth.

Starting with Zeus, the leader of the Olympian gods, who encourages the other gods to grant Orpheus powers.

This last actually impress the Olympian gods themselves, with Aphrodite even suggests to literally grant godhood to the Gauls, but Zeus refuses to do so as they doesn't need of another hedonistic god like Dionysus.

Shaped from clay over 3, 000 years previous and given new lives by five Olympian goddesses — Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hestia, and Aphrodite — the Amazons are granted immortality, great physical strength, highly acute senses, beauty, wisdom, and love for one another.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon.

Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named " Hera-famous " in her honor ; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece.

In the Olympian scheme, Zeus is father of her twins, Apollo and Artemis, the Letoides, which Leto conceived after her hidden beauty accidentally caught the eyes of Zeus.

Persephone as a vegetation goddess ( Kore ) and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon, and promised to the initiated a more enjoyable prospect after death.

In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes and Apollo had wooed Persephone ; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities.

Amalthea's skin, or that of her goat, killed and skinned by the grown Zeus, became the protective Aegis in some traditions, a vivid enough metaphor for the transfer of power to this Olympian god from that of the goddess who preceded his cult.

From Cronus, of the race of Titans, the Olympian gods have their birth, and Hera mentions twice in Iliad book XIV her intended journey " to the ends of the generous earth on a visit to Oceanus, whence the gods have risen, and Tethys our mother who brought me up kindly in their own house.

The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right.

After parting ways with her coach Pat Connolly ( herself a 3-time Olympian ) in 1985, Ashford was largely self-coached.

Heracles, the greatest hero of the dawning Classical Olympian world of deities and men, had to defeat the river god to win her as his bride.

She leapt into the sea with her son Melicertes in her arms, and out of pity, the Hellenes asserted, the Olympian gods turned them both into sea-gods, transforming Melicertes into Palaemon, the patron of the Isthmian games, and Ino into Leucothea.

Otherwise, Cybele remained a distinctly foreign goddess ; her liking for wild places and wild behaviour set her apart from the Olympian gods, and most of her cults were funded privately, rather than by the polis.

The Attic tradition, reproduced in Euripides ( Ion ), regarded the Gorgon as a monster, produced by Gaia to aid her children, the Titans, against the new Olympian deities.

In 1850, he had initiated a local athletic competition that he referred to as " Meetings of the Olympian Class " at the Gaskell recreation ground at Much Wenlock, Shropshire.

They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel ; Callisto also makes Xena to conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods ; this girl was named Eve.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

It was here that, in October 1850, the local physician William Penny Brookes had founded the Wenlock Olympian Games, a festival of sports and recreations that included athletics and team sports, such as cricket, football and quoits.

This battle occurred in the time when Heracles lived, so many events had already happened: the establishment of the Olympian gods, their progeny, the adventures of Perseus ( forefather of Heracles ) and so on.

Delos had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.

A lost Titanomachy that dealt with the struggle that Zeus and his siblings, the Olympian Gods, had in overthrowing their father Cronos and his divine generation, the Titans, was traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth, a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiad ruling family in archaic Corinth, who was treasured as the traditional composer of the Prosodion, the processional anthem of Messenian independence that was performed on Delos.

The first empousa, who claimed to be freed from Pandora's jar when it had been opened, appeared in the next book, The Last Olympian.

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age.

As Pindar conceived the myth-element in his third Olympian Ode, " the doe with the golden horns, which once Taygete had inscribed as a sacred dedication to Artemis Orthosia ", (" right-minded " Artemis ) was the very Cerynian Hind that Heracles later pursued.

When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds: Tereus became a hoopoe ; Philomela became the nightingale whose song is a song of mourning for the loss of innocence ; Procne became the swallow.

When he discovered what had been done, Tereus tried to kill the sisters ; they fled and he pursued but, in the end, all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds.

He is happy to discuss their plight with them and meanwhile one of them has a brilliant idea — the birds, he says, should stop flying about like idiots and instead should build themselves a great city in the sky, since this would not only allow them to lord it over men, it would also enable them to blockade the Olympian gods in the same way that the Athenians had recently starved the island of Melos into submission.

* Alcmene, Semele, Alope: Nymphs who were visited by the Olympian gods, they are typical of the old days when the Olympians had free passage through the skies ( lines 558-9 ).

He had a sympathetic interest in the Olympian Games movement of William Penny Brookes, first shown when he joined a party with his first cousin Lord Forester that viewed the first Wenlock Olympian Games at Much Wenlock in 1850.

While chthonic deities had a general association with fertility, they did not have a monopoly on it, nor were the later Olympian deities wholly unconcerned for the Earth's prosperity.

Thus Demeter and Persephone both watched over aspects of the fertility of land, yet Demeter had a typically Olympian cult while Persephone had a chthonic one.

He joined the local athletic club, where he developed his own training program, modelled on what he had read about the great Finnish Olympian Paavo Nurmi.