Statue of Zeus Phidias

The statue of Zeus at Olympia, even Zeus of Phidias, statue of Olympian Zeus and Olympian Zeus of Phidias called (from Greek: τὸ Ἄγαλμα τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου Διός, ὁ τοῦ Φειδίου Ζεὺς Ὀλύμπιος, tò agalma tou of Zeus, ho tou Pheidíou Olympian Zeus; Latin: Olympici Jove's statue, rarely Phidia statue Iovis Olympici) was the seated colossal statue of Zeus in 456 BC Temple of Zeus at Olympia was completed by the sculptor Phidias. She was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.

Description
The Greek travel writer Pausanias gives a detailed description of the statue, after which the concrete appearance can be reconstructed, but only conditionally. The statue had a height of about 12 meters, was built on an inner skeleton of iron, plaster and wood exterior with gold, ivory and ebony lined (Chryselephantine sculpture) and decorated with colored glass and cast stones. She showed Zeus as a wise, kindly old man sitting on a throne.
Marble seated statue of Zeus in the Hermitage Museum, created by Phidias' statue of Zeus

The statue of Zeus, however, was only created from 438 BC, almost twenty years after completion of the construction of the temple, the Greek sculptor Phidias, who until his death around 430 BC, this statue, which was his greatest masterpiece, worked. After the completion of the statue of Phidias was executed. He was alleged to have taken precious materials such as ivory and gold in the work itself.

As was unhappy with the Greeks of those who had not seen the National Shrine. Also an irrational creature would have to shake the sight of Zeus (John Chrysostom). The Zeus of Olympia was the last work of the Greek sculptor Phidias, from which came the same technology built into the statue of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis in Athens. She set the highest of the gods with a furrowed brow (supercilium) dar. for a lifting of the brow of Zeus ruled according to ancient belief the world, with a frown, he can shake the Olympus.

In the year 40 AD the Roman emperor Caligula failed in the attempt to create the statue to Rome.

The statue of Zeus at Olympia was not destroyed. In the 4th Century (c. 360 AD) has brought them to Constantinople. There she fell in AD 475 destroyed in a fire. The remains of the Temple of Zeus and the remains of the workshop of Phidias in Olympia can be seen on the spot. A ceramic cup in the bottom of the words: ΦEIΔIOY EIMI εἰμί (Φειδίου; Pheidiou eimi "Phidias [property] bin ich") are engraved, was found in the rubble of the garage next to the remains of equipment and tools. The size of the resulting column drums gives an idea about the size of the entire temple. By the middle of the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus still exists, all other towering figures, stretched out a figure, of the formal style in the youthful Apollo God of Olympia, the right arm with an imperious gesture. Many parts of the other characters in this pediment are preserved.

Model function
The scientifically analyzed documentation "prostrate giants - Wonders of the World" by Peter Spry Leverton, and the British archaeologist John Romer, who has dealt for years with the discovery and reconstruction of two Greek Wonders of the World, suggests that the statue of Zeus such a big stimulus to have had the then Christian leaders that they gave consent, Jesus Christ through the face of the present statue of Zeus, as there was no historical pictorial evidence, but I also like Jesus Christ.