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Kolossos van Rhodos

A giant bronze statue of Helios that stood over the harbour of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.

Dated events and their evidence

• 292 BCE mainstream
  begun to celebrate Rhodes' survival of a siege source
• 280 BCE mainstream
  the ~33 m bronze colossus completed source
• 226 BCE mainstream
  toppled by an earthquake after barely 54 years source

Where

36.4510° N, 28.2250° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838813000591
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes

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