A marble relief depicting a prancing horse believed to have been part of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Italy, has ...

Zeus was worshiped throughout the Greek world, the most important sites being at Athens, Acragas, and Olympia. At Olympia, ...

In response, Greek authorities have undertaken restoration work, including building a heavy metal structure to stabilize the surviving columns. But before beginning these efforts, it was crucial to ...

as it was dedicated to Zeus, the patriarch of all Greek gods and the ruler of Mount Olympus. While only 15 of the original 104 columns of the temple are still standing, this landmark is one of the ...

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

Footage of the ancient Greek site of Delphi taken by a drone captures the sanctuary, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, in all ...

Zeus was the king of the gods. Each god and goddess had power over a different aspect of life or the world. Click below to find out a bit more about them. The Greeks built temples to their gods ...

In this, the ancients looked to Hades, god of the underworld, brother of Zeus and Poseidon ... The Erechtheion, a temple to Athena, occupies the most sacred ground on Athens’s Acropolis.