In the beginning of the 1st century B.C. Olympos fell into the hands of the pirates. The

cult of the Persian light god Mithras, became popular, and this cult spreaded from here to

Europe under the influence of the pirates.During the Roman period under Hadrian(117 to 138

A.D.) Olympos reoched its last peak.The fire god Hephaistos, the Roman Vulcanos, was

honered by the people as the main divinity.

As the years went by Olympos lost its importance and the number of inhabitants

decreased.It was finally deserted in the 15th century.

Very little has remained of the city situated on two sides of a small brook.The ruins of a

gate constructed in the 2nd century A.D. a bridge which joined the northern to the

southern part of the akropolis, the Roman theatre and a warehouse can be recogranized.Since Olympos has still not been excavated properly, the largest parts of the old buildings are buried under the earth.