Luminous sanctuary
Original AI-generated editorial illustration, 2026. Used for the home hero and architecture story. It is a fantasy environment, not a real place or reconstruction.
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Each note describes what a source supports; it does not imply that the institution reviewed or endorses Olympus Journal. Links were checked during preparation on 6 September 2026.
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtArchitecture in Ancient Greece
Temple plans, building materials and the main characteristics and development of the architectural orders.
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtGreek Art: From Prehistoric to Classical — Greek Orders of Architecture
Museum educational diagram and terminology for Doric, Ionic and Corinthian architectural elements.
- Perseus Digital Library, Tufts UniversityHesiod, Theogony, lines 853–868
Accessible translation of one ancient poetic episode in which Zeus uses thunder and lightning against Typhoeus.
- Perseus Digital Library, Tufts UniversityDictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Cyclopes
A reference entry tracing changed traditions and citing accounts in which the Cyclopes provide Zeus with thunderbolts.
- Perseus Digital Library, Tufts UniversityCommentary on the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
A concrete comparison between versions of the Hermes story and the order or details in which events are told.
- J. Paul Getty TrustRepresentations of Zeus/Jupiter in Bronze Statuettes from Albania
Scholarly museum publication on thunderbolt-bearing representations and the limits of identifying a damaged figure from pose alone.
- British MuseumAn introduction to the Parthenon and its sculptures
Placement and subjects of pediment sculpture, metopes and frieze on one documented temple.
- British MuseumGreek Revival architecture: simplicity and splendour
A documented nineteenth-century reuse of Greek architectural language that is not a literal copy of an ancient building.
- British MuseumVirtual visit: Touring Greek temples
Museum educational overview of temple locations, orders, decoration and sanctuary activities.
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Three column studies
Original AI-generated educational illustration, 2026. Simplified plaster-like studies help readers compare broad Doric, Ionic and Corinthian cues; none copies a named capital.
Myth and lightning
Original AI-generated editorial illustration, 2026. The anonymous draped figure and invented fragments evoke myth without identifying a specific god, statue or ancient scene.
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