circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
According to Pausanias, in Zeus' right hand there was a small statue of crowned Nike, goddess of victory, and in his left hand, a sceptre inlaid with gold, on which an eagle perched.
Plutarch, when he beheld the statue, “was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.
According to Pausanias, in Zeus' right hand there was a small statue of crowned Nike, goddess of victory, and in his left hand, a sceptre inlaid with gold, on which an eagle perched.
Plutarch, when he beheld the statue, “was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.
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