 The pediment is decorated with figures that are in relief in the earlier examples, though almost free-standing by the time of the sculpture on the Parthenon.Early architectural sculptors found difficulty in creating satisfactory sculptural compositions in the tapering triangular space.By the Early Classical period, with the decoration of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, (486–460 BC) the sculptors had solved the problem by having a standing central figure framed by rearing centaurs and fighting men who are falling, kneeling and lying in attitudes that fit the size and angle of each part of the space.