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One of many nice views on has from the famous Acropolis
on the amazing city of Athens.

This was taken from next to the Parthenon showing the
Olympieion (= Temple of the Olympian Zeus).

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The Temple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the
Olympieion, is a temple in Athens. Although work began
in the 6th century BC, it was not completed until the
reign of the Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD. In
the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was the largest temple in Greece.

The temple is located about 500 m south-east of the
Acropolis, and about 700 m south of the centre of
Athens, Syntagma Square. Its foundations were laid on
the site of an earlier temple by the tyrant Pisistratus
in 515 BCE, but the work was abandoned when
Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BCE.

During the years of Athenian democracy, the temple was
left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of the
classical period thought it hubristic to build on such
a scale. In the treatise Politics, Aristotle cited the
temple as an example of how tyrannies engaged the
populace in great works for the state and left them no
time, energy or means to rebel.

The work was resumed in the 3rd century BC, during the
period of Macedonian domination of Greece, under the
patronage of the Hellenistic king Antiochus IV
Epiphanes, who hired the Roman architect Cossutius to
design the largest temple in the known world. When
Antoichus died in 164 BCE the work was delayed again.

In 86, after Greek cities were brought under Roman
rule, the general Sulla took two columns from the
unfinished temple to Rome to adorn the Temple of
Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill. These columns
influenced the development of the Corinthian style in
Rome.

In the 2nd century, the temple was taken up again by
Hadrian, a great admirer of Greek culture, who finally
brought it to completion in AD 129.

The temple was built of marble from Mount Pentelicon,
and measured 96 metres along its sides and 40 metres
along its eastern and western faces. It consisted of
104 Corinthian columns, each 17 meters high, (about)2.6
meters in diameter, weighed (about) 364048 kilograms,
of which 48 stood in triple rows under the pediments
and 56 in double rows at the sides.
Only 15 of these columns remain standing today. A 16th
column was blown down during a gale in 1852 and is
still lying where it fell.

The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis
Penrose of the British School in Athens,
in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel
Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by
Ioannes Travlos. The temple, along with the
surrounding ruins of other ancient structures, is a
historical precinct administered by Ephorate of
Antiquites of the Greek Interior Ministry.

[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Olympian_Zeus_%28Athens%29]


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