Statue of Zeus at Olympia
A 12-metre god of gold and ivory
The sculptor Phidias made a seated Zeus about 12 metres tall for the temple at Olympia, of ivory and gold over a wooden frame. It was said that if the god stood up he would go through the roof. The statue, one of the Seven Wonders, was lost in the 5th century AD, either in a fire at the temple or later in Constantinople.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 5th century BC
Alive at the time
- Socrates (aged 35)
- Sophocles (aged 62)
- Pericles (aged 60)
- Herodotus (aged 49)
- Phidias (aged 45)
- Hippocrates (aged 25)
- Democritus (aged 25)
- Zeno of Elea (aged 55)
- Protagoras (aged 55)
- Aspasia (aged 35)