place
Mount Olympus
Olympus
also: Olympot, Olympos
Mount Olympus, home of the Greek gods; used by the young Madách as a metaphor for the divine perfection he sees concentrated in his beloved's eyes.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §107 Olympot
Mount Olympus, home of the Greek gods; used by the young Madách as a metaphor for the divine perfection he sees concentrated in his beloved's eyes.
- Dream of Fairies (Fragment) §31 old Olympus
Mount Olympus, the mythological home of the Greek and Roman gods; Ámor's lament that the female divinities overthrew the ancient gods echoes the cosmological theme of Madách's major work The Tragedy of Man.