Historiae Romanorum

The Olympians

Twelve gods make up the the Olympians.  These gods lived on Olympus, sometimes served by the lesser gods.  The number was fixed at twelve, and so it seems certain to me that Hestia was bumped from the list in order to make room for the newer god Dionysus.

Source(s):

1. Oxford Concise Companion to Classical Literature.  ed.  Howatson and Chilvers.  Oxford.  New York, 1993.

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