How many centuries ago was the temple of zeus created?

Answer 1

From a 1909 lecture:
As early as the second millennium B. C, so far as we can judge from the results of excavations in Greece proper and in Crete, the inhabitants of these lands had anthropomorphic ideas about some of their deities, that is, they thought of them and represented them in their art essentially as human beings; on the other hand, we find in the later centuries such primitive elements as the worship of sacred stones, trees, and symbols still existing. Yet it is a mistake to suppose that Greek religion had its origin in a worship of natural objects and forces; undoubtedly the worship of natural phenomena and of inanimate obiects, of ancestors, and possibly of animals, all contributed to the religious sum total, but it is impossible to trace to-day all:the factors which made up religion in historical times. We can only say that the Greeks worshiped a multitude of spiritual beings who filled all nature and were to be found in every field of activity. Man, therefore, was always in social relation to the gods. ! The ordinary Greek felt that the world was filled with divine beings of varying ranks whose favor he must seek or whose ill nature he must propitiate by offerings and prayer.
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Archeology has found temples to Zeus as early as 900 BCE. Most were destroyed when Christians took power, just as the books on the religion were burned.

Interestingly, The religion of Greece was was active more than 2400 years before Christianity became a mainline relgion.

I wonder if Christianity will last as long with it's constant break ups and break downs.

Answer 2

In about 450 B.C., the city of Olympia -- where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 B.C. -- built a temple to honor the god Zeus.

Between 470 B.C. and 460 B.C. a new temple was started. The maker was Libon of Elis and the masterpiece he created, The Temple of Zeus, was finished in 456 B.C

Answer 3

Zeus has hundreds of temples around Greece.

Before any temples were built he had sacred groves, caverns and mountain-top altars.

Answer 4

it was built around 450 bc so many many centuries ago