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The statue of Zeus sitting on a magnificent throne rose about 40 feet inside his temple in the sanctuary of Olympia. It was so large that, according to the geographer Strabo, if Zeus stood up, his ...

The statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus was discovered in 1877, but its influential presence makes it a timeless piece ...

Why go? Katakolon, on a pretty little harbour with colourful fishing boats, is near the legendary city of Olympia. Immerse ...

This is a full-sized cast of a group of figures, P and Q, from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, identified as a Centaur and a Lapith youth. On the viewer's right, the young Lapith ...

You can visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for most of the year, although limited hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. are in place from November through March.

When the Temple of Zeus—often counted among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for its 41-foot-tall statue—was completed several decades later, ... The Temple of Hera at Olympia, 1913.

Those great Panhellenic events began more than 2,700 years ago, first in Olympia and later at Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea. And at Nemea, where the games began in 573 B.C., a Berkeley archaeologist ...

A group of researchers from the National Technical University of Athens has conducted an ambitious geophysical study to unravel the hidden mysteries beneath the Temple of Olympian Zeus, one of the ...