Temple of Zeus In 476 B.C., after the Greeks had defeated an invasion attempt by the Persians, a decision was made to build, at Olympia, a temple dedicated to Zeus that would later hold his giant ...

A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia stood around 13 metres (43 feet) tall, towering over visitors to the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece. It was constructed around 435 BC by the sculptor Phidias, and ...

Those great Panhellenic events began more than 2,700 years ago, first in Olympia and later at Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea. And at Nemea, where the games began in 573 B.C., a Berkeley archaeologist ...

The Temple of Hera, also known as the Heraion, is thought to have been constructed around 600 B.C.E. Originally, the structure was dedicated to another god: Hera’s unfaithful husband, Zeus.

This is a full-sized cast of a group of figures, P and Q, from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, identified as a Centaur and a Lapith youth. On the viewer's right, the young Lapith ...