Apollo, Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece, about 460 BC. The impassive, square-shouldered Apollo is an early and powerful example of the hard, simplified realism of the 5th century BC which we describe as 'early classical'. The god stood in the centre of the west pediment of the temple, with his right arm extended in a gesture to calm a battle of Greeks and Centaurs which raged around him.

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Apollo, Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece, about 460 BC. The impassive, square-shouldered Apollo is an early and powerful example of the hard, simplified realism of the 5th century BC which we describe as 'early classical'. The god stood in the centre of the west pediment of the temple, with his right arm extended in a gesture to calm a battle of Greeks and Centaurs which raged around him.

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