The Temple of Zeus

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Temple of Zeus at Olympia, known as the Oplympeion, Amalias Street is located at 500 meters southeast of the Acropolis and Emtriva 700 south of Syntagma Square. Foundation belongs to a temple that was dedicated to the tyrant Pisistratus in the year 515 but i Ch canf works were abandoned son of Pisistratus, Hippias was removed from the throne in the year 510 Ch i.

The construction of the temple of Zeus were performed in dry Ch III died during the Macedonian domination Cossutius Roman architect hired to design the house. The temple was finished in 129 d. Ch when an admirer of Greek culture, Hadrian, took charge of the works.

Temple of Zeus at Olympia was built of marble brought from Mount Pentelus and measuring 96 feet long and 40 meters wide. Corintiene consists of 104 columns each having 17 meters, 48 of them were the three columns and 56 of them were placed in two columns. Until today, only 15 towers have survived, the last pillar fell during a storm in 1852.

Hadrian's temple dedicated to Zeus (known to the Romans as Jupiter), the god of gods. He erected a giant gold and ivory statue of Zeus dedicated to adding one of which has placed her next to that of Zeus. None of them was kept. Nobody knows what was destroyed during templus but presumably, like many other buildings in Greece, may have been destroyed during an earthquake in the Middle Ages.

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