Then the statue rose like a building as each new section ... Ptolemy’s interest in the Colossus reveals the close links between Rhodes and Egypt, and the awe with which the figure of Helios ...

This amounts to building the statue as a tripod structure ... A suspension system would allow the statue to rock back and forth. The Colossus of Rhodes Project says in its mission statement ...

The building process included extensive earthworks ... Several ambitious proposals in the recent past have aimed to resurrect ...

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 ...

And if Liberty’s construction was inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, it makes sense that ... defining the effect via cause. It is world-building. But it’s not world-building in the way ...

The Colossus of Rhodes took pride of place on many of these ... They wanted to turn the new Colossus into a solar-powered sculpture-cum-building that would contain a public cultural center and ...

Building such a vast edifice requires a huge ... and cultural significance traditionally attached to the Colossus of Rhodes.” ...