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The Olympieion's foundations were laid (on the site of an earlier temple) by the tyrant Pisistratus in 515
BC, but the work was abandoned when Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was overthrown in 510 BC.
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During the years of Greek democracy, the temple was left unfinished, apparently because the Greeks of
the classical period thought it anti-democratic to build on such a scale. Aristotle cited the temple as an
example of how tyrannies engaged the populace in great works for the state and left them no time,
energy or means to rebel.
What to See at the Temple of Olympian Zeus
The graceful ruins of the Temple of the Olympian Zeus can be clearly seen from the Acropolis and are
floodlit at night. The temple is made of fine marble brought from Mount Pentelus and originally measured
96 meters long and 40 meters wide.
Hadrian had erected a giant gold and ivory status of Zeus in the cellar, and placed an equally large one of
him next to it. Unfortunately, however, nothing remains of these or anything else from the interior of the
temple.
History of the Temple of Poseidon
Soúnio has been a sacred site since very ancient times. The "sanctuary of So union" is first mentioned in
the Odyssey, as the place where Menelaus stopped during his return from Troy to bury his helmsman,
Phrontes Onetorides.
Archaeological evidence has shown that there were two organized places of worship on the cape by the
7th century BC: a sanctuary of Poseidon at the southern edge and a sanctuary of Athena about 500 m to
the northeast.