Greece - Athens - Temple of Olympian Zeus
In it's day (2nd century AD), the Temple of Olympian Zeus was the largest temple in Greece, bigger than the Parthenon. It took 650 years to complete, not least because this overblown style fell out of fashion for a few hundred years.
You'd think then they'd at least reconstruct this column, afterall, there's even a whole one right next to it they could copy and another 14 just out of picture. At over 2m diameter, it does also make you wonder where the other 88 columns disappeared too doesn't it ?
Greece - Athens - Temple of Olympian Zeus
In it's day (2nd century AD), the Temple of Olympian Zeus was the largest temple in Greece, bigger than the Parthenon. It took 650 years to complete, not least because this overblown style fell out of fashion for a few hundred years.
You'd think then they'd at least reconstruct this column, afterall, there's even a whole one right next to it they could copy and another 14 just out of picture. At over 2m diameter, it does also make you wonder where the other 88 columns disappeared too doesn't it ?