Temple of Zeus the Olympian
Atenas, Attica, Greece
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The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as Olympus is a temple in Athens. Although it began in the 6th century BC. C., was not completed until the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the second century. In Hellenistic and Roman times, it was the largest temple in Greece.
Located about 500 m southeast of the Acropolis of Athens and about 700 m from the center of Athens (Syntagma Square), its foundations were laid on the site of a first temple by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC, but work was abandoned when his son Hipias was overthrown in 510 BC
Hadrian dedicated the temple to Zeus (known by the Romans as Jupiter), the king of the gods. He raised a giant gold and ivory statue of Zeus in the cellar and placed an equally large one next to it. No rest or interior of the temple survived. It is unknown when the building was destroyed, but, like many large buildings in Greece, it is likely to be destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages. Most of its ruins were used as building material.
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