With an altitude of 2,917 meters, Olympus is the highest mountain peak in Greece. Today, it is famous for its exceptional biodiversity and rich flora, while it remains the most popular mountain in Greece for hikers, mountaineers and climbers, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the world every year who want to discover the mythical mountain.

Those thousands of visitors who have had the opportunity to visit Mount Olympus to date will tell you that it is snowy and most likely covered by clouds. And yet, the word “Olympus» comes from “shining” (i.e. always bright), while according to Homer, the peak of Olympus was blinding and the snow that covered the mountain, permanently bright.

This glory of Olympus caused awe even to prehistoric man, the first inhabitants of that area, who would create the legends that would later give birth to the myth of the Twelve Gods of the Ancient Greeks, who of course resided on Olympus.

Is there a logical explanation for the events that inspired the ancient myths about Olympus? For the Greek geologist Michalis Stylas, the references of Homer and the ancients are not random, but refer to climatic phenomena and give important information about the climate in antiquity.

The Secrets of Olympus, the new documentary co-produced by COSMOTE TV, directed by Anne Viry-Babel, follows “Mike” Stylas and his team on their unique quest to prove the hypothesis that during the time of Homer, due climatic disturbances, there was an ice age – and this is what made the mountain even more brilliant.

Styllas and his team from the international interdisciplinary project “PalAeolus” must literally fight against time, since climate change, which causes the melting of the ice, may disappear once and for all the ice, full of valuable information, that is on the mountain . It is this ice that can reveal the secrets of Olympus. So the pressure is great.

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