The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, by 432 BC at the point where it was built in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. He was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
The seated statue, about 12 meters (39 feet) tall, occupied the entire width of the nave of the temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand," the geographer Strabo noted early in the first century BC, "he unroof the temple." The Zeus was a chryselephantine sculpture, ivory and gilt bronze. No copy of marble or bronze has survived, but there are recognizable, but approximate versions on coins of Elis, and the nearby Roman coins and gems. A very detailed description of the sculpture, and his seat was by registration traveler Pausanias in the second century AD. The statue was crowned with olive branches has been made in gold and sits on a magnificent throne of cedarwood, inlaid with ivory, gold, ebony and precious stones. Zeus in the right hand there was a small statue of St. Nike, the goddess of victory, as chryselephantine, and in his left hand a scepter inlaid with gold, on which an eagle. Plutarch in his Life of Paul, the Roman general Aemilius squatting, records that the victor of Macedonia, when he, the statue "was his mind was moved when he saw the god himself," during the first century AD Greek Dio Chrysostom spoke only explained a look at the statue of a man would forget all earthly cares.
The seated statue, about 12 meters (39 feet) tall, occupied the entire width of the nave of the temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand," the geographer Strabo noted early in the first century BC, "he unroof the temple." The Zeus was a chryselephantine sculpture, ivory and gilt bronze. No copy of marble or bronze has survived, but there are recognizable, but approximate versions on coins of Elis, and the nearby Roman coins and gems. A very detailed description of the sculpture, and his seat was by registration traveler Pausanias in the second century AD. The statue was crowned with olive branches has been made in gold and sits on a magnificent throne of cedarwood, inlaid with ivory, gold, ebony and precious stones. Zeus in the right hand there was a small statue of St. Nike, the goddess of victory, as chryselephantine, and in his left hand a scepter inlaid with gold, on which an eagle. Plutarch in his Life of Paul, the Roman general Aemilius squatting, records that the victor of Macedonia, when he, the statue "was his mind was moved when he saw the god himself," during the first century AD Greek Dio Chrysostom spoke only explained a look at the statue of a man would forget all earthly cares.
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