Freedom rocks: ":Can anyone explain to me please about the statue in the Daniel prophecy."
I think most scholarship would understand Daniel's dream, in much the same way as Revelation. Pretending to be prophetic in order to encourage the faithful ones to stand fast because one day YHWH will take action against the pagans.
I think there can be little doubt that it was written after Alexander the Great conquered Persia (who had previously ruled the area) and ushered in a long period of Hellenistic influence. You can find a clue to that Hellenistic influence in a Greek poem written by Hesiod. He wrote that around 700 BCE and while Greek influence was almost certainly being felt in the eastern Mediterranean before Alexanders time, after Alexander's conquest, Greek colonies were established in Jewish territory.
Anyway back to my point, Hesiod's poem was didactic - written to instruct and teach.
In the section called, "The Five Ages," the poet describes five ages of humans.
The first were golden, " Golden was the first race of articulate folk ... they had everything good."
Later there was a 'silver' generation, not as good as the frst ... then a third generation of bronze , not as good as the silver, who only cared about fighting and war. Then a fourth, and a fifth - the iron age - the age of trouble.
It would not take much imagination for a Jewish writer to adapt that to the dream of Daniel,