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 ...

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes was a 100-foot bronze statue of Helios, the Greek titan-god of the sun. It was constructed in 280 B.C. to celebrate a military ...

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, Helios, raised at the mouth of the island's ...

To celebrate their victory, the Rhodians decided to build a giant statue of their sun god, Helios. They had won the war because of his help and now they wanted to show their appreciation.

"Stylistically, the statues have several features in common ... they were named Alexander Helios (Sun), and Cleopatra Selene (Moon). "Antony's recognition of the children was marked by an eclipsys.

Its last in Florida was Disney's Animal Kingdom in 1998. The statue of Apollo facing Epic Universe, as seen from the Universal Helios Grand Hotel’s Flora Taverna restaurant. Photo Credit ...