The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was designed by Libon of Elis, and Pausanias credits Paeonius and Alcamenes with the sculpture. The article names no client. The infobox and text agree that construction ran from about 472 to 456 BC.
The article describes a peripteral Doric temple with sculpture in the Severe style. It had a local poros stone core covered in stucco, Parian marble sculpture and translucent Pentelic marble roof tiles. The height is 68 feet (20.7 m). The infobox gives 236 by 98 feet (72 by 30 m), but the text, citing Pausanias, gives 230 by 95 feet (70.1 by 29.0 m).
It housed Phidias's gold-and-ivory statue of Zeus. The article attributes the damage to earthquakes in AD 522 and 551 or to flooding, though a 2014 paper suggests deliberate toppling. It was rediscovered in 1766, and systematic excavation began in 1875. The article gives no hours.
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