Nike, the goddess of Victory, in his right hand, and an eagle in his left hand.
Plutarch, in his books, reports that the Roman General Aemilius Paulus was so much touched when he saw the statue, as if he had witnessed god in person while the Greek orator Dio Chrysostom had said that one glimpse of the statue of Zeus would make a man forget his troubles.
There has never been any agreement on the exact cause of the statue’s destruction. Some think that the statue was perished in the 5th century AD along with the temple itself while others argue that the statue was brought all the way to Constantinople where it was destroyed in the devastating fire of the Lauseion.
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