Zeus statue

Statue of Zeus, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. This is a Roman copy of the statue created by Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. It was discovered in the excavations at Domitian’s villa near Lake Albano. It is made of marble, gilded wood, and stucco. It is 3.5m in height, and weighs around 16 tons.

From the Louvre Museum.

This edited article about Greek mythology first appeared in Look and Learn issue number 500 published on 14 August 1971. The statue of Zeus at Olympia Zeus was chief of all the Greek gods; the Romans knew him as Jove or Jupiter. The course of all human affairs was directed by him, and his throne […]

Zeus

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