Ossa

Mount

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A mountain rising to a height of 6,489 feet at the northern end of Magnesia, the coastal district of Thessaly (northeastern Greece) facing the Aegean. At the southern extremity of the same range stands Mount Pelion, and across the Vale of Tempe from Ossa rises Olympus. All three mountains figure in a famous myth recounting how twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, planned to climb up to heaven by piling Ossa on Olympus and Pelion on Ossa; but according to a tradition preserved by the Odyssey, they were killed by Apollo.