Olympianismn.

1892 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 368 This old Pelasgian system crops out incessantly in the Poems [sc. the Iliad and Odyssey]; and..it appears but slightly in the architecture, the art, the public institutions..of the country. In these great departments Olympianism has reigned supreme.

1926 Philos. Rev. 35 540 As in the Orphic reaction against Olympianism, he will return to the more human and functional gods.

1964 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 68 324 In the earlier part of the trilogy [sc.The Oresteia] the extirpation of the family appears inevitable from the raw and capricious Homeric Olympianism which governs the world.

2002 Columbia Encycl. (ed. 7) (Electronic ed.) at Polytheism The religion of dynastic Egypt included hundreds of deities, but worship (as in Greek Olympianism) tended to be city-centered.

1918 F. Hackett Ireland viii. 234 The superb theorem of Abraham Lincoln—‘No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent’—has something in it that surpasses the lonely Olympianism of Nietzsche.

1941 Mod. Lang. Notes 56 28 One..marvels at Pushkin's triumph over his torn self, a victory unmatched by the empty idealism of detached Olympianism of Weimar.

1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Aug. 915/4 Emerson's heirs..edited the Journal according to their own literary notions and their sense of family privacy and Emersonian Olympianism.

2000 Isis 91 527 Their professional stature had given them a sense of ‘olympianism’.