Olympus Glory
Ryan Cochran-Siegle was having a breakout season, but an injury won’t derail his pursuit of Olympic glory By John Powers Globe correspondent, Updated March 2, 2021, 12:39 p.m. Email to a Friend. Photo: Olympus platform and a drilling rig in the background (for illustration); Credit: Photographic Services, Shell International Limited Back to overview Home Fossil Energy Rystad: Oilfield services sector will struggle to repeat former glory amid energy transition push. Olympus Glory includes the standard EGT progressive jackpot game. This is randomly triggered, and involves a game which lets you choose from 12 face-down playing cards. Each of the jackpot amounts you will see above the reels is associated with a playing card suit. The Olympians are a fictional species appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.These characters are based loosely on the Twelve Olympians/Dii Consentes and other deities of Greek and Roman mythology.
Set in ancient Greece, the Olympus Glory video pokie from EGT is anything but spartan, as it comes complete with bonus features such as free spins with special expanding symbols, wild substitutions and a 4-stage progressive jackpot round. A classic theme deserves a classic design, and the 5 reels, with symbols in 3 rows, and 10 paylines running from the left is a standard layout, while playing card symbols will be familiar to anyone who has played casino pokie machines before.
The high paying symbols are unique however, and feature a rich variety of Gods, each of which becomes animated when they are part of a winning combination, while top God Zeus will bless punters with bonus games when he’s in the right places.
Set amongst the cloudy home of the Gods that the ancients believed was at the top of Mount Olympus, the realistic symbols need to stop across a payline on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1 to create a standard winning combination, with payouts expressed s multiples of the amount staked per line. The low limit bet is 0.10, and the maximum wager is 20.00, although most online casinos offer free Olympus Glory video pokies for anyone who likes to test out games before they play for real money.
Playing Olympus Glory
In common with many pokie games, the lower-value symbols are made up of playing card 10, J, Q, K and A. The first 3 are worth 5, 25 or 100x the line bet when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels across a payline, while the K and A each pay out 5, 40 or 150x for the same combinations.
We won’t pretend to know the names of the various Greek Gods, but they all pay out a prize when landing on just 2 reels from the left side, and each will reveal their godly powers when they make up a win. The 2 lower-value ones are worth between 5 and 750x depending on how many are in a line, while the top awards come from the female warrior, who returns wins of between 10 and 5000x when stopping across a line.
Zeus will need to be on at least 3 reels to pay out 20x, while 4 or 5 of this stern-looking character will be worth 2000x. He’s also the wild symbol of this game, able to act as any other to complete winning lines, either by filling in any gaps in the sequence, or extending a win across extra reels.
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Zeus is also the trigger for the main bonus feature, and once the any awards for landing the symbol across a line, 10 free spins will begin. During these, a randomly selected symbol will expand across any reel that it appears on, which should make it easier to complete lines of it. The same symbol will expand throughout the 10 bonus games, so players will hope that a high-value one is selected, but it’s a random choice made by the software and they have no influence of which is picked.
It’s worth noting that the wild won’t be able to substitute for this special expanding symbol. If 3 or more Zeus symbols appear during a free spin, a further 10 extra games are added on to the end of the current round.
Other Features
Any time there’s a win of less than 350 coins, players will be given the option to try and double it, potentially several times over in the gamble game. If they choose to play, they will need to correctly decide if a playing card is going to be from a red or black suit, but if they get it wrong, the triggering win, along with any gains made in the gamble so far, are lost.
Like all EGT pokies, there’s a randomly-triggered Jackpot Cards round that is guaranteed to pay out one of the progressive prizes shown above the reels. 12 face-down cards are shown and players click them in any order, winning the jackpot that corresponds to the first suit found on 3 cards. These range in value from the small-ish Club prize, to the Spade jackpot which can be a substantial amount.
The Verdict
Although they may not be worshipped any more, the Gods of Greece a still quite popular in the world of casino pokie machines, and there’s numerous games dedicated to them. Olympus Glory is a fairly good example, that has the potential to reward punters with decent bonuses, particularly in the free spins round, where the special expanding symbol can create multiple winlines.
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Apart from this however, there’s nothing very inventive about the game, although anyone who likes the look of it will probably enjoy giving these reels a few spins.
Aphrodite was an Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was the most beautiful of all goddesses in terms of appearance, but her personality was rather damaged because she is described as weak and frightened as well as ill-tempered and easily offended. She had many affairs with both gods and mortals. The reason behind all of this might be that she had no childhood and never learned how to deal with a relationship. Her belief was that no woman should stay and die a virgin. Therefore, she gladly helped men to charm women with love spells. Aphrodite was also the main reason for the Trojan war when she, in exchange for the golden apple that would make her as the fairest goddess, promised Paris eternal love from Helen who was thought to be the most beautiful woman on earth, and of course Paris couldn't resist this offer.
Aphrodite is usually depicted as a naked or half-naked beautiful woman with curly hair. On many occasions, she is also depicted in the company of her lovers.
Birth of Aphrodite
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According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born as an adult when Uranus' testicals fell in the sea, after Cronus castrated him, and that puts her in the older Titansgeneration. It is said that she had emerged from the foam which gathered on surface of the water. However, another source is presented in Homer's Iliad where she was a descendant of Zeus and Dione, who Homer also placed to Olympus, which makes her a second generation Olympian goddess. Regardless of different sources, she is always depicted or has a reference of being born as an adult, nubile and infinitely desirable. She is also always referred to be among Olympian gods and was a part of the family on Mount Olympus.
Love affairs
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Because of her beauty and uncontrollable desire, she was seen as a threat to interrupt peace between gods because of jealousy. Zeus married Aphrodite to Hephaestus, when the god demanded her in order to release Hera from a magical trap. Zeus also saw this marriage as a solution to prevent others from their rivalry to possess the goddess of beauty. This, however, didn't stop Aphrodite to have her affairs. Most notably and most desirable was the one with Ares, with whom Aphrodite was having a passionate but secret love affair. The fruits of this affair were Phobos(god of fear) and Deimos(god of terror). They usually accompanied Ares into a battle, causing fear and terror before destruction. And there were also Erotes which include Eros (love), Anteros(counter-love), Himeros(sexual-desire), Pothos(yearning) and Harmonia(harmony). However, for each of these, there are many sources connecting them to other origins and bloodline. For example, according to Hesiod, Eros is a primeval god and there are no reference to him by Homer. Aphrodite is also noted for having an affair with Poseidon who showed her support when Aphrodite and Ares were chained on the bed by Hephaestus for displaying adultery in his chambers. She was grateful to Poseidon who managed to get them released from the chains and she mated with the god of the Sea. Allegedly, she bore him a daughter Rhodos, a sea-nymph of the island Rhodes. She was also having a short affair with Dionysus, a god of wine and pleasure. They succumbed into having the pleasures of love under the influence of wine and Aphrodite then allegedly gave birth to Priapus(minor god of fertility). She was also seduced by Hermes and gave birth to Hermaphroditus(minor god of bisexuality and effeminacy). Unlike other gods, except Ares, Aphrodite was the one who made her move when it came to Nerites, a young sea-god. She was trying to seduce him and was on the right course, until she asked him to join her at Olympus. When the god refused, she in revenge transformed him into a shell-fish.
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Most notable among mortals was Adonis, a mortal god of beauty and desire, who was loved by the goddess. He was a god of ever-cycling rebirth and his cycle was annual in which he lived, died and was reborn and therefore never aged. When Adonis was born for the first time, he was taken by Aphrodite who became so obsessed with the him, when he reached boyhood, that she began neglecting her duties of being a goddess. Therefore, she had given him to Persephone in the underworld to be taken care of and hidden from the rest of goddesses and women. Persephone, however, also fell in love with Adonis and refused to give him back when Aphrodite came for him. Their quarrel became so fierce that Zeus had to intervene and find a compromise. Afterwards, Adonis was set to spend four months with Persephone and four months with Aphrodite and for rest of the months, he was free from clasps of the goddesses. One day, when Adonis was spending his time in Aphrodite's care, he went into a forest where he was killed by Ares who had transformed himself into a wild boar and out of jealousy pierced Adonis with his tusks. Adonis then passed into the realm of the dead where Persephone welcomed him with open arms. But Aphrodite went after him and another heated quarrel began, between the goddesses, over who has the rightful possession over him in this case. Zeus once again had to interviene and, after a long patient period, they agreed that he would spend half a year with Aphrodite and half a year with Persephone. Aphrodite also threw her eyes on a semi-god Phaethon, the Athenian lord. He was carried to Syria by the goddess who made him a guardian of her temple and bore him a son Astynoos. Another of her lovers was an Argonaut called Boutes. She saved him on their voyage for the Golden fleece, when he had fallen asleep and fell into the water. She carried him off to Italy as her lover and bore him a son Eryx. She was also interested in Anchises, prince of Dardania, where the goddess seduced him by transforming herself into the Phrygian princess and making him love with her for two weeks straight. Aphrodite bore him two sons Aeneas and Lyrus
Aphrodite as the main cause for Trojan war
Aphrodite was also responsible for Trojan war. It all started when Eris, a goddess of discord and rivalry, appeared in wedding of king Peleus and sea-nymph Thetis. Because of her discovery, that she had not been invited to a wedding, she threw the golden apple, a fruit of temptation, to a banquet table. The apple should go to 'the fairest one'. The problem appeared when Aphrodite, Hera and Athena all started arguing that their existence suits the entitlement of golden apple. Zeus couldn't decide himself because all three were very dear to him and therefore passed the decision to a handsome mortal man called Paris. Athena and Hera promised him power and glory while Aphrodite promised him eternal love from the most beautiful mortal woman on earth. That appeared to be Helen of Sparta. Paris chose Aphrodite and set things in motion as Helen traveled to Troy with Paris and became Helen of Troy. Aphrodite then naturally supported Paris during the war and convinced her lover Ares to side with her and the Trojans.