The Temple of Olympian Zeus or Olympeion can refer to the following ancient Greek temples:
- Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Agrigento
- Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
Famous quotes containing the words temple of, temple, olympian and/or zeus:
“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“Thou shalt make thy house
The temple of a nation’s vows.
Spirits of a higher strain
Who sought thee once shall seek again.
I detected many a god
Forth already on the road,
Ancestors of beauty come
In thy breast to make a home.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Zeus is the air, Zeus the earth, Zeus all things and what transcends them all.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)