The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a gigantic statue created in the temple at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece. The Statue was one of the seven ancient wonders, and also housed one of the pieces of the Golden Capstone.
Fictional History[]
Seven Ancient Wonders[]
Prior to 466 BC, the sculptor Pheidias was commissioned to build a gigantic statue of the Greek god / King of Land Zeus. By 456 BC the temple made to house the statue was completed, and 20 years later the statue of Zeus himself was finished.
After Alexander the Great oversaw the disassembly of the Golden Capstone, he arranged for each of the Capstone's component Pieces to be hidden by priests of the Cult of Amun Ra within the constructs that would become known as the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The already-existent Statue of Zeus was chosen as one of the hiding places, and soon one of the Capstone's Pieces was hidden in the pedestal of the Nike portion of the statue. The Callimachus Text would later be written with the clue that the Capstone Piece was a part of Nike, not Zeus itself, and that one should search for her statue instead of Zeus.
Roughly a thousand years after its completion, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia met its unfortunate end, the circumstances of which are largely unknown.
The statue of Nike the Winged Victory that had once rested upon the Zeus's right hand, however, somehow ended up being transported to the Greek island of Samothrace prior to the 19th century. In 1863, the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau found the Nike statue, but unaware of who had sculpted it had it named the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
The Winged Victory was transported to the Louvre soon afterwards for examination, and would later be displayed in the museum's Denon wing.
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Features[]
Zeus Statue[]
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Nike the Winged Victory sub-statue[]
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Trivia[]
- Zeus would later be mentioned in The Four Legendary Kingdoms, being mentioned as a former King of Land of the Four Legendary Kingdoms. By this revelation, the Statue of Zeus would be the second known Wonder with a connection to the Four Kingdoms.