Sentence examples for great altar from inspiring English sources

Discoveries included the temple of Hera, the great altar of Zeus, and the location of the Olympic stadium.

…Athena Nicephorus; and the great altar of Zeus with its richly decorated frieze, a masterpiece of Hellenistic art.

Its monuments included a theatre; the temple to Athena Nicephorus; and the great altar of Zeus with its richly decorated frieze, a masterpiece of Hellenistic art.

He was responsible for a multitude of works, great and small, including plans for the new palace of Nantes and construction of the great altar for Nantes cathedral.

The great altar of Zeus at Pergamum (now in the Berlin State Museum) has fine examples of the relief sculptures with which the Greeks decorated their altars.

Near the top stood the great altar of Zeus with its mighty frieze (now in Berlin) of the battle of gods and giants, and the throne of Satan.

The Pergamon, with the great Greek altar that gives it its name, will retain much of its collection and be defined as a museum of ancient architecture.

In early classical times it was not cut off from the sanctuary, and one end of the track was directly in front of the great ash altar of Zeus (beneath the later Echo Colonnade).

In fact, dressed entirely in white cowled robes and ranked on three rising tiers at the back of the stage, this ensemble looks more like a choir of stone saints rising above a great medieval altar.

The list ranges from a small stele in the British Museum in London to the great Pergamon Altar, centerpiece of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, and includes such items as the top half of a Roman statue in possession of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the bottom half of which is on display at Antalya Museum in Turkey.

"All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth," he went on.