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The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, ... Floor plan Pedimental sculptures in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
Sombreada la base de la estatura de Zeus, y ante ella el estanque para aceite de oliva. English: Plan of the temple of Zeus in Olympia (Greece), peripter, with inner sanctuary and front and rear porches.
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 ...
Some famous temples, notably the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, and the Temple of Asclepius, Epidaurus, had much of the naos floor occupied by a very shallow pool filled with water (Parthenon) or olive oil at Olympia. All these had chryselephantine images, and Pausanias was perhaps correct to link the Parthenon one with the ...
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.
Plan of the Temple of Hera. (A: Peristyle; B: Pronaos; C: Naos; D: Opisthodomos; E: Base of Statue of Hermes). The Heraion at Olympia, located in the north of the sacred precinct, the Altis, is one of the earliest Doric temples in Greece, and the oldest peripteral temple at that site, having a single row of columns on all sides.
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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 ...