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- In short, the decoration of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia was carefully calibrated to its context of sport and competition. Set beneath the pediments, designed to be viewed against them, were a series of carved metopes – individual square panels lined up in a row, with six on each side of the temple.
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Metopes are square panels that alternate with triglyphs on buildings that conform to the Doric order. This particular metope was originally positioned high up on the east (front) side of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
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Herakles is shown without a beard (and thus as a young man)...
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The first metope shows Athena as a young woman, comforting the tired hero who has accomplished his first Labour, against the Nemean Lion. On the third metope she received the dead Stympahlian birds from him, and is seated on a rock, a possible reference to Athens.
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order .
Herakles is shown without a beard (and thus as a young man) in the first metope from the temple, but by the last metope he has grown a thick beard, indicating that he has aged into adulthood.
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The high-point of relief sculpture on metopes is exemplified by the 92 metopes of the Parthenon, metopes of the temple of Zeus at Olympia [1], together with the metopes of Temple C at Selinus.
The erection of the Temple of Zeus with its sculptural adornment represents the first major building following the Persian invasion of Greece. It is the first significant monument of the Early Classical period and the sculpture in particular illustrates the extraordinary change which has taken place since the Archaic Period.
