The monuments Philon chose--to be remembered in perpetuity--were the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the
Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and Egypt's Pyramids of Giza.
Starting unexpectedly with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and moving onto the popular pepla films with their oiled leading musclemen such as Atlas (1960) and The
Colossus of Rhodes (1961), and ending with Robert Wise's Helen of Troy (1956), Nisbet highlights the major problems that Greece faces in a translation to the big screen.
Ash, author of such DK titles as The Top 10 of Everything, shows and tells how some of these wonders were constructed, too, with information on how the Great Pyramid at Giza and the
Colossus of Rhodes were built, for instance.
The largest bronze casting, possibly the largest of all time, was the
Colossus of Rhodes, which stood more than 100 ft.
Not that the traditional list of ancient Seven Wonders--the Pyramids, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus in the Temple at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus,
Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus--really does go back to the ancient world itself.
Her introduction opens with a full-page Renaissance drawing of the legendary
Colossus of Rhodes (c.
In the eight-deck atrium lobby you'll find a huge wall decoration depicting the
Colossus of Rhodes, a mammoth bronze statue that dominated the harbor in the ancient Greek city of Rhodes; a Jason and the Golden Fleece mural adorns the upscale, extra-cost Golden Fleece Supper Club.
If that's not enough culture for you, the
Colossus of Rhodes - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world - is reputed to lie submerged in the port.
The image that comes to mind is that of the
Colossus of Rhodes, the towering statue on the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.
But in January, the company is mounting artistic director Carey Perloff's first play: The
Colossus of Rhodes, developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, in Waterford, Conn., in 2002 (an earlier version premiered at Westport's Lucille Lortel White Barn Playhouse in 2001).
The
Colossus of Rhodes guards the 11 storey-high atrium with its glitzy glass lifts.