Temple of Olympian Zeus

The Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion can refer to the following ancient Greek temples:

  • Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Agrigento
  • Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens

Famous quotes containing the words temple, olympian and/or zeus:

    The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
    And thy temple have they defiled.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Zeus is the air, Zeus the earth, Zeus all things and what transcends them all.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)