The pediments of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia are some of
the best surviving examples of early Classical Greek sculpture which were
completed in 460 BCE. On the west pediment ('centauromachy' – battle between centaurs
and the Lapiths) Zeus stands in the center on the east and Apollo on the west. But,
Apollo is the deity who brings order to the scene as he is a deity promising to
restore order as the deity of rationality and self-control,
