The Colossus, Chares’s audacious “second sun,” was not destined to last for centuries: An earthquake destroyed it and parts of the city of Rhodes in 226 or 225 B.C., little more than half a ...

Despite its grandeur, the Colossus was not destined to stand the test of time. In 226 BC, a devastating earthquake struck ...

What if I told you the Statue of Liberty was built to imitate a wonder of the ancient world? The colossus is the wonder of ...

Whether the Colossus of Rhodes watched over the harbor from its mouth or from high on a hill further inland, it was no match for the gods of nature. When an earthquake hit the city in 226 B.C., it ...

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.

Early in God of War II, after using a ballista to launch him onto the Colossus of Rhodes’s face, Kratos and I begin working our way through its insides. It’s the an inversion of that last ...

Fotis Hatzidiacos, mayor of Rhodes, has given his backing to the reconstruction of the Colossus of Rhodes – the 30 metre-tall (98-foot) bronze statue of the sun god, Helios, raised at the mouth ...

But if the Colossus of Rhodes is resurrected, sailing into the island's harbor would be the experience of a lifetime—a real life version of cruising into Braavos. Source: Slate.

Or Sergio Leone’s 1961 film “The Colossus at Rhodes,” in which the statue, true to Heemskerck’s depiction, boldly straddles the harbor’s entrance, ...

The Colossus of Rhodes has also left an impact on real-world monuments, notably New York’s Statue of Liberty.