Temple of Zeus

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Sources

1. BookDescription of Greece
2. BookThe Ancient Olympics

Relations

located in:

• Altis

  Sources: Description of Greece

location of:

• Statue of Zeus at Olympia

  Sources: Description of Greece

depicts:

• Heracles

  Sources: Description of Greece

• Pelops

  Sources: Description of Greece

designed by:

• Libon of Elis

  Sources: Description of Greece

excavated by:

• Morea expeditionsince 1829

  Sources: The Ancient Olympics

patron:

• Zeus

  Sources: Description of Greece

Appears in8 items

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  The Ancient Olympics8 items
  • Classical Olympia480 BCE O.S.
  • 
    Temple of Zeus completed457 BCE O.S.
  • 
    Phidias’s statue of Zeusc. 435 BCE O.S.
  • Mummius’s shields on the Temple of Zeus146 BCE O.S.
  • A later end under Theodosius IIc. 430 CE O.S.
  • 
    Earthquakes topple the Temple of Zeusc. 536 CE O.S.
  • 
    The French dig in the Temple of Zeus1829
  • 
    The Nike of Paionios is found · findspotDec 1875