Standing for a little more than 50 years in the third century B.C., Rhodes’s titanic statue of Helios made a colossal impact on Western art, history, and imagination. Louis de Caullery’s 17th ...

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this giant statue of the sun god Helios was sculpted from the melted-down weapons and shields of the Cypriot army, which Rhodes had recently vanquished. The Colossus itself was toppled by an ...

The gigantic figure of Helios took 12 years to build. It was 33 metres high and stood looking out to sea on a pedestal at the entrance to Rhodes' main harbour.