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 ...

Imagine a statue so colossal it rivaled the Great Pyramid of Giza, a bronze giant that once stood guard over an ancient ...

Chares would become known for making several large-scale sculptures over the course of his career, but none was as large as the statue of Helios that would take him 12 years to complete.

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 ...

It was certainly one way to let outsiders know who was boss: In fact, this giant statue of the sun god Helios was sculpted from the melted-down weapons and shields of the Cypriot army, which ...

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.

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 ...

"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.