to try and win in the festival’s competitions of power, stamina and ability.
Fate of the Statue of Zeus
At its peak in approximately 5th century BC, the Olympic games started drawing crowds of nearly 40,000 from all around the Greek world: Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, Rhodes, and many other cities. The sculpture of Zeus resided over the games until 393 AD. After that it got close down by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I owing to their pagan relations. The fate of the figure is not known today. Theodosius II prepared the demolition of the temples in 426 AD, and the figure may have been corroded then or been taken off to Constantinople, to be misplaced in the great fire that surrounded that city in 475 AD…
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