 This development had a direct effect on the sculptural decoration of temples, as many of the greatest extant works of ancient Greek sculpture once adorned temples, and many of the largest recorded statues of the age, such as the lost chryselephantine statues of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and Athena at the Parthenon, Athens, both over 40 feet high, were once housed in them.The religion of ancient Greece was a form of nature worship that grew out of the beliefs of earlier cultures.However, unlike earlier cultures, man was no longer perceived as being threatened by nature, but as its sublime product.