Covered in thick layers of gold, minutely decorated, and towering above her worshippers, this will be a statue of the city's patron and protector: Athena Parthenos.
Across the Ancient Near East, we find a number of snakes associated with goddesses: Ishtar in Mesopotamia, Wadjet in Egypt, and even Athena in Greece, when she wasn't hanging out with owls.
As mentioned, the early triad of Roman cult deities transformed into Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, who were equivalent to the Greek's Zeus, Hera and Athena.
The statue of Zeus at Olympia was created by an artist known as the finest sculptor of the ancient world in the 5th century BCE, Phidias, who also worked on the Parthenon and the statue of Athena in Athens.