Definition: The Athenian sculptor Pheidias (Phidias) is considered the greatest of the classical sculptors, so in 440 B.C., when it was decided that Zeus should preside via statue at the Olympic games, at Olympia*, those responsible for honoring the king of the gods commissioned Pheidias. The ivory and gold-covered statue of Zeus that Pheidias crafted sat in a Doric temple built c. 450 B.C. by the architect Libon.
The statue of Zeus was built to praise Zeus and show his glory and power to the people who visited
The statue of Zeus was built in honor to Zeus, and to show his glory to visitors.
The statue of zues is one of the ancient wonders of the world.it got detroyed by a man. He set it on fire.
The first person said because its special but no its because it when the Olympics started.
It represented the god, built by the city-state of Elis as their patron.
The statue of Zeus was built for
Zeus.
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The statue of Zeus is bout 400 feet tall.
The Statue of Zeus is 2,468 years old.
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The Olympic Games
I think it could be called a proper statue, since that work of Phidias was counted as one of the seven wonders of the world.
The statue of Zeus was built for Zeus.
Any statue of Zeus was built to honor him.
The statue of Zeus was built in Olympia.
The statue of zeus was built at pelonnesus (modern Greece)
why was the statue of zeus at olympia is so important
It was built to honor zeus
the statue of Zeus was built to honor Zeus and to show his glory to passing visitors. the statue of Zeus was built to honor Zeus and to show his glory to passing visitors.
The statue of Zeus was built so that the people in Olympia Greece can worship him for all that he has done.
the famed sculptor Phidias built the statue in 435 BC.
by the Greeks
For the temple of Zeus where he was worshiped.
For the temple of Zeus where he was worshiped.