The Colossus commemorated Rhodes’ victory over the Macedonian forces led by Demetrius I, a general under Alexander the Great. After repelli ...

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 ...

As we approach election day in America, we are faced with an American Colossus which in its way is as impressive as that ...

Around 280 B.C., an immense statue, the Colossus of Rhodes, was erected beside the entrance to the harbor on the Greek island of Rhodes. The ancients named it one of the Seven Wonders of the ...

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The statue is said to have been monumental, as it stood at a height of 33 meters overlooking the entire city. After about six ...

Until an earthquake in 226 BCE knocked it down, the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high iron and bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, sat near the harbor of Rhodes, Greece, for 54 years.

While holidaying in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two plots to overthrow the tyrannical king: one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Keep an eye out, too, for a pair of Egyptians standing by the Colossus, who give a sense of just how immense these 60-foot-tall, 1,300-ton statues really are.