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Mode (s) Single player. Zeus: Master of Olympus is a single-player strategy game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Studios. [2] It is considered to be an additional installment in the City Building series of games. [3] Like previous titles in the series, Zeus focuses on the building and development of a city in ancient times.
Olympian Zeus in the sculptured antique art of Quatremère de Quincy (1815). The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, [1] made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek ...
236 by 98 ft (72 by 30 m) Design and construction. Architect (s) Libon. Other designers. Paeonius, Alcamenes. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple ...
The Olympia Master is the name given to the anonymous sculptor responsible for the external sculpture of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. [1] From what Pausanias tells us of the dates of the Temple, the Master and his workshop were active between 470 and 457 BC. [2] The two pediments and the series of metopes ascribed to him are the paradigmatic ...
Group of Zeus and Ganymede. The Group of Zeus and Ganymede is a multi-figure Late Archaic Greek terracotta statue group, depicting Zeus carrying the boy Ganymede off to Mount Olympus. It was created in the first quarter of the fifth century BC and is now displayed near where it was originally found in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός, Naós tou Olympíou Diós), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a former colossal temple at the centre of the Greek capital, Athens. It was dedicated to "Olympian" Zeus, a name originating from his ...
The Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia depicts the tale of Pelops just before the chariot race [1] wherein he kills the king Oenomaus in order to win the hand of his daughter Hippodamia. [2] The depiction of this chariot race on the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, along with that of the Twelve Labours of Heracles ...
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