The temple of Zeus

The temple of Zeus is the religious center of Greek, and civilians from the city sent many different types of offerings. Centuries, has been in the open air altar Koubai Zeus. An altar dedicated to Zeus, is said to be using a variety of offerings made of the ashes. The Temple of Zeus was built in 470 BC, the fifth century BC by a local architect Libon of Elis supervisor to build a magnificent temple, as the Temple of Zeus, and was completed in 456 BC, the temple Miaohou The statue is used Paros island marble, and the sculptor Phidias is responsible for Statue of Zeus.

Chevron eaves decorated temple on the west side of the many statues, full style in Athens. Was necessary in order to the Temple of Athens-style statue, or because of Phidias’s reputation far and wide, building temples are particularly requested him to Olympia to work as a sculpture, and now go undiscovered.

One argument is that Phidias in the Parthenon sculptures of Athena Colossus when he was accused of misappropriation of valuable material, subjected to Bianchu left exile hometown of Athens, had life, they die Olympia. This is the only credible argument is that it is the name of Phidias and the then politicians Pericles is a friend of his reputation to take any enforcement actions would have a negative impact on Pericles, so the Philippines Diaz began to flee.

In the Olympia excavations carried out by the modern, the earliest one in 1829 presided over by the French expedition. Lasted six weeks. So that modern people have more understanding of the Olympia, it is the German expedition. They started in 1875, almost never stopped to explore, although the Temple of Zeus were identified, as well as decorative statues, and partially restored the original shape of the Temple of Zeus, but has found no traces of its own Statue of Zeus. However, from 1954 to 1958, the archaeologists discovered a series of exciting work in a place not far from the Temple of Zeus, the work of local ruins dug Phidias, shape, size and the Temple of the same as the main room.

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