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Detail of a metope from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, featuring Heracles and the Cretan bull (Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Greece). The sculptural decoration in imported Parian marble [9] featured carved metopes and triglyph friezes, topped by pediments filled with sculptures in the Severe style, now attributed to the "Olympia Master" and his studio.
The temple is about 500 m (0.3 mi) south-east of the Acropolis, and about 700 m (0.4 mi) south of the center of Athens, Syntagma Square. Its foundations were laid on the site of an ancient outdoor sanctuary dedicated to Zeus. An earlier temple had stood there, constructed by the tyrant Peisistratus around 550 BC.
Map of the first archaeological excavations in Olympia and of the temple of Olympian Zeus discovered by the expedition of Morea in May 1829 (by Abel Blouet and Pierre Achille Poirot) Over time the site was buried under alluvial deposits, up to 8 metres deep, long thought to be the result of river flooding.
The depiction of this chariot race on the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, along with that of the Twelve Labours of Heracles on the metopes of the frieze, relate to the location of the temple in Olympia; the chariot race and Heracles were both believed to have started the tradition of the Olympic Games. [3]
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
I–IX Town gates, 1 Temple of Hephaestus, 2 Kolymbéthra, 3 Sanctuary of the chthonic gods with Temple of the Dioscuri and Temple L, 4 Temple of Olympian Zeus, 5 Tomb of Theron and Hellenistic-roman nekropolis, 6 Temple of Asclepius, 7 Temple of Hercules, 8 Temple of Concordia and Early christian nekropolis, 9 Temple of "Hera", 10 Basilicula, 11 Rock sanctuary of Demeter, 12 Temple of Demeter ...
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, [1] made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. [citation needed]
The Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion or Olympieum can refer to the following ancient Greek temples: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento; Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens; Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece, built in the fifth century BC; Temple of Olympian Zeus, at Megara