The statue of Zeus was commissioned by the Eleans, custodians of the Olympic Games, in the latter half of the fifth … See more

According to Roman historian Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Caligula gave orders that "such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or their artistic merit, including that of Jupiter at Olympia, s… See more

The approximate date of the statue (the third quarter of the 5th century BC) was confirmed in the rediscovery (1954–1958) of Phidias' workshop, approximately where Pausanias said the statue of Zeus was constructed… See more

• List of tallest statues
• Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God
• George Washington, 1840 statue
• Great Buddha of Kyoto Lost giant statue of Japan, like Zeus at Olympia… See more

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Di… See more

• Barringer, Judith M. 2010. "Zeus at Olympia." In The gods of ancient Greece: Identities and transformations. Edited by Jan Bremmer and Andrew Erskine, 155–77. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press.
• Bauer, Franz Alto (… See more