Louis de Caullery’s 17th-century painting depicts the Colossus astride the port of Rhodes, a stance that has since been debunked by historians. Louvre Museum, Paris The Greek poet Antipater of ...

This wasn’t a figment of mythology, but a real engineering feat that left the ancient world in awe: the Colossus of Rhodes.

The statue was constructed in the image of Rhodes’s patron deity, the sun god Helios. Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed ...

The team behind the Colossus of Rhodes Project developed the idea in the aftermath of Greece’s ongoing economic crisis as a way “to make Rhodes a new point of reference for the whole world ...

And now the dream may come true. Fotis Hatzidiacos, mayor of Rhodes, has given his backing to the reconstruction of the Colossus of Rhodes – the 30m-tall bronze statue of the sun god ...

With “The Colossus of Rhodes,” a bold theatrical exploration of Victorian England’s Cecil Rhodes, Carey Perloff can add playwright to her resume without blushing. The first play from the ...

“I see Rhodes as the negative image of somebody like Nelson Mandela,” says writer and filmmaker Antony Thomas. “Rhodes had the charismatic gift where he could relate to anybody, whether you ...

Street cats are common sights in some parts of the world, but tourists on vacation in Greece caught something a little rarer—the "Colossus of Rhodes." Last week, Abbie Louise shared a video to ...

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