Thousands of years ago many people believed in a god named Zeus.
He was considered the god of sky and weather and his image
appeared on most Greek coins. The people of Greece worshiped
this idol as their god. Zeus has become one of the Seven Wonders
of the World. Phidias, Greek sculptor famous and his workers
carved a gigantic statue of Zeus in a special workshop behind
the temple. It was made entirely of gold and ivory
(chryselephantine). When finished, he sat in the temple on a
throne with elaborate sculptures and paintings of Greek myths
and legends. Zeus is the most famous statue of antiquity because
of its size, its charm and value. Zeus was the supreme god and
ruler of Olympus. He was known by many titles: The Man in the
sky, the cloud-gatherer, Zeus the god of rain and thunder, which
shows the force of nature was considered the largest in the
ancient world – the rain. In most other mythologies of the “god-
king” was usually associated with the sun, but in Greece, the
climate is hot and dry to rain rare,