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The temple and the image were made for Zeus from spoils, when Pisa was crushed in war by the Eleans1, and with Pisa such of the subject peoples as conspired together with her. The image itself was wrought by Pheidias, as is testified by an inscription written under the feet of Zeus:“Pheidias, son of Charmides, an Athenian, made me.
”The temple is in the Doric style, and the outside has columns all around it. It is built of native stone.
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Corinth
Laconia
Messenia
Elis
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Elis
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Achaia
Arcadia
1 circa 570 B.C.
Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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