Posted on 10/31/2015 8:32:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
But the team stresses they do not want to build a replica of the original bronze structure of a warrior standing over the entrance of the ancient city’s harbour.
Instead, they want to construct a 150-metre tall “reimagining†of the wonder, based on the ambitions and vision of the original 2200-year-old monument.
They want to crowdsource its funding through the internet.
It will still be a colossal statue. It will still be a lighthouse. But it will we sheathed in a bronze-coloured skin that doubles as solar panels.
The team says they aim to “put back on the map the island of Rhodes beginning with the restoration of its historical value.â€
The enormous structure, which would dwarf the Statue of Liberty, would mainly serve as a library and museum “to bring out to light the hundreds of archaeological findings forgotten in the storerooms of the island.â€
A new push to rebuild the Colossus has been gaining momentum for several years, with the Mayor of Rhodes — Fotis Hatzidiacos — stating last last year that negotiations were underway to identify a site for the new structure.
A previous attempt, in 2000, failed to garner enough financial support.
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I'm SURE that Obama would be DELIGHTED to make American taxpayers ante up the Euros for that COLOSSOL waste of money.
Will it last more than fifty six years before an earthquake brings it down?
Of course the ruins of the original, having fallen in the 226BC earthquake, were finally destroyed under the Arab mohamedan, caliph Muawiyah I, in 653AD.
moslems do have a way of destroying everything they get their hands on! Their God, satan, is also known in the Bible as Abaddon, the Destroyer, so it is little wonder they destroy all they touch!
How many carbon credits will have to be purchased to cover for the pollution during constuction ???
....annnnnnnd there ya go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes
Preserved in Greek anthologies of poetry is what is believed to be the genuine dedication text for the Colossus.
To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus, when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy. Not only over the seas but also on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom and independence. For to the descendants of Herakles belongs dominion over sea and land.
...The statue stood for 54 years until Rhodes was hit by the 226 BC earthquake, when significant damage was also done to large portions of the city, including the harbour and commercial buildings, which were destroyed.[9] The statue snapped at the knees and fell over onto the land. Ptolemy III offered to pay for the reconstruction of the statue, but the oracle of Delphi made the Rhodians afraid that they had offended Helios, and they declined to rebuild it.
The remains lay on the ground as described by Strabo (xiv.2.5) for over 800 years, and even broken, they were so impressive that many travelled to see them. Pliny the Elder remarked that few people could wrap their arms around the fallen thumb and that each of its fingers was larger than most statues.
In 653, an Arab force under Muslim caliph Muawiyah I captured Rhodes, and according to The Chronicle of Theophanes the Confessor, the statue was cast down and sold to a Jewish merchant of Edessa who loaded the bronze on 900 camels. The Arab destruction and the purported sale to a Jew possibly originated as a powerful metaphor for Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the destruction of a great statue.
The same story is recorded by Bar Hebraeus, writing in Syriac in the 13th century in Edessa: (after the Arab pillage of Rhodes) “And a great number of men hauled on strong ropes which were tied round the brass Colossus which was in the city and pulled it down. And they weighed from it three thousand loads of Corinthian brass, and they sold it to a certain Jew from Emesa” (the Syrian city of Homs). Theophanes is the sole source of this account and all other sources can be traced to him.
Another bad idea. Old Rhodes town does not need it and it would overshadow the town
This topic was posted , thanks BenLurkin.
Legend has it that the Colossus of Rhodes once stood at the mouth of Rhodes harbour in Greece.
The colossus was a giant statue of the ancient Greek sun-god, built to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus. The Colossus stood approximately 33 metres (108 feet) high — the approximate height of the modern Statue of Liberty from feet to crown — making it the tallest statue of the ancient world.
It was the inspiration for the 'Titan of Braavos' in Game of Thones, though it almost certainly did not stand with one foot on each side of the harbour entrance, but probably stood to one side. However, the feet-apart stance is the version that caught the public interest and the legend stuck, including every fridge magnet and small statue in the tourist shops of Greece!
But today there is no colossus to see as it collapsed during an earthquake in 226 BC. So while we were in Rhodes, we decided to rebuild it...We rebuilt the Colossus of Rhodes! | October 19, 2019 | Steve Ramsden
Wiki: The Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it was constructed to celebrate Rhodes' victory over the ruler of Cyprus, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, whose son Demetrius I of Macedon unsuccessfully besieged Rhodes in 305 BC.
According to most contemporary descriptions, the Colossus stood approximately 70 cubits, or 33 metres (108 feet) high—the approximate height of the modern Statue of Liberty from feet to crown—making it the tallest statue of the ancient world. It collapsed during the earthquake of 226 BC; although parts of it were preserved, it was never rebuilt.
As of 2015, there are tentative plans to build a new Colossus at Rhodes Harbour, although the actual location of the original remains in dispute.The Colossus of Rhodes - 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
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The animated version.
homs, syria, about 75 miles NE of Beirut
The codpiece alone will weigh 100 tons.
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