Long before the famous statue existed, the first Olympic Games, part of a festival honoring Zeus, were held in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C. In ancient Greece, Zeus was the supreme ...

At Olympia, the temple to Zeus contained a thirty-foot gold and marble statue of the god seated ... Apollodorus recounts in his Library of Greek Mythology that the baby Zeus was given to the ...

You had permission to place your statue in the sanctuary of Zeus. And when you went home, it was the red carpet [treatment]. Lifetime board at the prytaneum [the ancient Greek city hall] and ...