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seem to imply that he considered
it as a solid vault of
metal. But it is not necessary to
construe these epithets so literally,
nor to draw any such inference
from his description of
Atlas, who holds the lofty pillars
which keep earth and
heaven asunder. Yet it would
seem, from the manner in
which the height of heaven is
compared with the depth of
Tartarus, that the region of
light was thought to have certain
bounds. The summit of the
Thessalian Olympus was regarded
as the highest point on
the earth, and it is not always
carefully distinguished from
the aerian regions above The
idea of a seat of the
gods—perhaps derived from a
more ancient tradition, in