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	Temple of Olympian Zeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός or Naos tou Olimpiou Dios) is a temple in Athens.
		During the years of Greek democracy, the temple was left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of the classical period thought it hubristic to build on such a scale.
		The temple was excavated in 1889-96 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens (who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
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	The Temple of Olympian Zeus
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus from the northeast.
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus from the east.
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus from the northwest.
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		The Interior of Zeus' Olympian Temple is a spacious courtyard surrounded by the thirty-four columns.
		On the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus is depicted the race between the Pelops and Oenomaos which began at an altar of Zeus at the temple.
		The scene represented on the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus is the depiction of the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs at the wedding of Peirithoos and Deidameia.
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	Temple of Olympian Zeus
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion (in Greek Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός or Naos tou Olimbiou Dios), is an ancient temple, now in ruins, in the centre of Athens.
		The temple is located about 500m south-east of the Acropolis, and about 700m south of the centre of modern Athens, Syntagma Square.
		The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens (who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
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		During the of Greek democracy, the temple was larboard unfinished, owing to the Greeks of the classical duration perceiving it hubristic to consuetude on such a scale.
		The temple was erected of marble from Mount Pentelus, and measured 96 metres forward-looking its roundabouts and 40 metres forward-looking its eastern and western faces.
		The temple was excavated in 1889-96 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens (who more played a first alone more in the restoration of the Parthenon), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
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	Temple of Olympian Zeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion (in Greek Ναός του ΟλυμπίουΔιός or Naos tou Olimbiou Dios), is an ancient temple, now in ruins, in the centre of Athens.
		During the years of Greekdemocracy, the temple was left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of the classical period thought it hubristic to build on such a scale.
		The temple was excavated in 1889 - 1896 by Francis Penrose of the BritishSchool in Athens (who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s byGreek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
	www.therfcc.org /temple-of-olympian-zeus-120695.html (553 words)

	Temple of Olympian Zeus - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion (in Greek language Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός or Naos tou Olimbiou Dios), is an ancient temple, now in ruins, in the centre of Ancient Athens.
		During the years of Greek Democracy, the temple was left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of the classical period thought it hubris to build on such a scale.
		Hadrian dedicated the temple to Zeus (known to the Romans as Jupiter (god)), the king of the gods.
	www.wordsonline.org /Temple_of_Olympian_Zeus (602 words)

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		515 B.C., Peisistratos the Younger, began the construction of a monumental temple which was not finished because of the fall of the tyranny in Athens.
		Much later, in 174 B.C., Antiochos IV Epiphanes, the king of Syria, attempted to continue the erection of the temple, which was finally completed by the Roman emperor Hadrian, in A.D. Inside the temple stood a colossal chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statue of Zeus.
		The temple was built between A.D. 124 and 132.
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	Temple of Olympian Zeus Photo Gallery by R McBee at pbase.com
		The ancient Agora - the Temple of Hephaestus (the Theseion)
		The present temple was begun in the 5th century BC but wasn't completed until the 2nd century AD.
		Hadrian had this gate erected when the temple was completed in the 2nd century AD; its purpose was to delineate the ancient city of Athens from the newer Roman city.
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	GREEKISLANDS.COM - ATHENS, THE CAPITAL OF GREECE
		Here was the center of the town, and where tradition places the oldest sanctuaries such as the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, the Pythion and the sanctuary of Gaia.
		The temple is built on a large rectangle, 250 m.
		In the temple's enormous enclosure there was a veritable forest of statues.
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	ARCL2001: Lecture 21
		The construction of the Old Temple of Athena Polias, constructed in the second half of the sixth century, is variously attributed by scholars to Peisistratos and his sons or to the early days of the new Kleisthenic democracy.
		The temple was built of limestone, with imported island marble used for the architectural sculpture and roof tiles.
		As with almost all ancient Greek temples the building was oriented east-west, though the Old Temple of Athena was unusual in that it did not have a single main cult chamber entered from the east, but rather possessed two sets of cult rooms, one set entered from the east and one from the west.
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		It was the largest temple in Greece, impressive for the sheer size of its 104 Corinthian columns (17m high with a base diameter of 1.7m).
		The democracy did not continue construction of the temple as it was a reminder of the tyranny.
		Finally, the remains of a large rectangular peristyle and the foundations of a small temple, to the south-west of the Kronion, have been identified with the Panhellenion, the sanctuary of Zeus Panhellenios.
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	Hadrians Arch and the Temple of Zeus - Athens Info Guide
		The Temple of the Olympian Zeus, also know as the Olympeion, is located on Amalias Avenue, about 500 meters (1640ft) south-east of the Acropolis and about 700 meters (2296 ft) south of Syntagma Square.
		Its foundations were laid on the site of an earlier temple by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC but the work was abandoned when Pisistratus' son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus was built of marble from Mount Pentelus and measured 96 (315ft) meters along its sides and 40 meters (131ft) along its eastern and western faces.
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	TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympeion, is an ancient temple, now in ruins, in the centre of Athens.
		In the 2nd century AD, the temple was taken up again by Hadrian, a great admirer of Greek culture, who finally brought it to completion in 129.
		The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens, in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.
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	Temple of Zeus, Agrigento, Sicily - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The temple of Olympian Zeus (Jupiter) was built to thank Zeus after the successful war of the Agrigentinians against the Carthaginians in 480 BC.
		Originally the temple was 113 metres long and 56 metres large, one of the most impressive in ancient times.
		The Greeks seldom arranged their monuments hierarchically along an axis, preferring to site their temples to be seen from several viewpoints in order to display the relation of ends to sides.
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	The Temple of Olympian Zeus
		The building of the Temple of Olympian Zeus actually began in the 6th Century by Peisistratos but work was stopped either because of a lack of money or because Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
		In 86 BC, during Roman rule the general Sulla took two columns from the unfinished temple to Rome for the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill which influenced the development of the Corinthian style in Rome.
		It is not known when the temple of Zeus was destroyed but it probably came down in an earthquake during the mediaeval period.
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	Athens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The temple of Olympian Zeus in central Athens
		The route starts from the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Vasilissis Olgas Avenue, continues under the southern slopes of its acropolis near Plaka and finishes just outside the temple of Hephaestus in Theseum.
		The Gazi area, one of the latest in full redevelopment, is located around a historic gas factory, that has been converted into the Technopolis (Athens's new cultural multiplex) for all the family and has a number of expensive small clubs, bars and restaurants, as well as Athens's nascent "gay village".
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	zeus stock images / stock images of zeus photos search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Colossal heads of Zeus and Antiochus I at the Hierothesion, remains in Nemr...
		Corinthian columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Greece ?
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	THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At the south end of the Agora stood the temple of Olympian Zeus.
		The latter was one of three premier temples in the Island, on which the right of asylum was confirmed in A.D. Only a part of the high podium of the temple remains in situ.
		One of the inscriptions found nearby in the excavations of 1890 is in honour of Augustus' wife Livia and dedicated to Zeus Olympios.
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	Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
		Because it is a symbol of the time when Athens was oppressed by a Syrian king and a Roman emperor, the Temple of the Olympian Zeus - the largest temple in Greece - has always been something of a thorn in the flesh of the people of Attica.
		The surviving remains, however - the group of 13 columns and part of the entablature at the southeast corner, two isolated columns on the south side and another column which collapsed in 1852 - are still of imposing grandeur.
		They are among the many temples and shrines on the banks of the Ilissos, which flows underground through this area; others include the temple of Aphrodite in the gardens on the right bank of the stream, the Metroon and the shrine of Artemis Agrotera on the left bank.
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	Greek Temples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		century BC temples of Ionia were among the largest the Greeks ever built, they have almost entirely disappeared, leaving only a few traces, from which the archaeologists have reconstructed their former appearance.
		The Temple of Athena Nike (above), at the gateway of the Acropolis, is one of the earliest surviving Ionic buildings in Athens and a little gem of the Ionic Order.
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens was begun in the 6
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	Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) - Athens, Greece
		Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) - Athens, Greece
		The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Olympieion, is an Greco-Roman temple in the center of Athens, southeast of the Acropolis.
		During the years of Greek democracy, the temple was left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of the classical period thought it anti-democratic to build on such a scale.
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	Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Olympieum, or Temple of Olympian Zeus, served as a focal point for visitors to Olympia, for it housed one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, a 12 meter high gold and ivory statue of the god Zeus, created by the famous sculptor Pheidias.
		The temple was built during the Early Classical period, between about 470 BC and 456 BC, by the architect Libon of Elis.
		The monumental sculpture was destroyed in a fire, and an earthquake ruined the temple in the 5th century AD; however, Pausanius' careful descriptions have aided us greatly in reconstructing and understanding the architecture from fragments.
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	Athens: Olympieion, Roman Market and Hadrian’s Library
		of the Olympian Zeus began in approximately 515 BCE by Peisistratos the Younger, but it was not finished due to the “fall of tyranny in
		The gate to the temple was built by Hadrian in 131 CE and functioned as a triumphal arch.
		Inside the temple of the Olympian Zeus, statues of both Zeus and Hadrian could once be found—a visual representation of the historical eras this temple has spanned.
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	Erechtheion Temple - Athens, Greece
		The Erecththeion or Erechtheum is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
		Within the foundations lived the sacred snake of the temple, which represented the spirit of Cecrops and whose well-being was thought essential for the safety of the city.
		The entire temple is on a slope, so the west and north sides are about 3 m (9 ft) lower than the south and east sides.
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	Travels in Greece: Travel, Arrival, and the Temple of Zeus
		The temple of Zeus sits in a large, open area (probably the largest flat spot in the city), so it can be looked at from every angle, and appreciated for its sheer size.
		Because the Temple of Zeus sits in such a wide open area, you can step back and get a good view of the Acropolis in the distance.
		After an hour and a half at the Temple of Zeus, I decided to head in the general direction of the Acropolis, taking a first pass through the Plaka, or old city (really, the tourist district) on the way.
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	The Temple of Olympian Zeus- Athens, Greece - VirtualTourist.com
		The temple of Olympian Zeus, known as the Olympieion, has probably the longest history of all ancient temples: construction began under Peisistratos but remained unfinished despite the efforts for its completion in the Hellenistic period.
		To honour the emperor, the Athenians erected Hadrian's Gate, close to the temple, a triumphal arch under which the emperor passed at the celebratory inauguration of the temple in AD 131.
		In 2001, the temple was chosen by the Culture Minister as the controversial setting for the Mythodea musical extravaganza by Vangelis (the "Chariots of Fire" musician), as Athens celebrated the Mars Odyssey mission.
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