History: In about 450 B.C., the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus. Many considered the Doric-style temple too simple, so a ...

This is a restored, miniature, cast reproduction of a group of figures, H and I, from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, identified as the Lapith Deidameia and the Centaur Eurytion.

The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was built between 480/470 and 456 BC. It was approximately 64 meters long, 28 meters wide, and 20 meters high, making it the largest temple in mainland Greece at the time ...

Since 1965, the Archaeological Museum has owned plaster casts of the pediment sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, making it the only German museum that can display both pediments. Due to ...

Olympia is in northwestern Peloponnesos. Its name comes from the sanctuary dedicated to the Olympian Zeus. The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia For more than a thousand years, the sanctuary of Zeus at ...

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