The Colossus of Rhodes
Archaeology of a Lost Wonder
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 September 2024
- ISBN 9780198903734
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 242x165x21 mm
- Weight 652 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 58 colour illustrations 522
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Short description:
In The Colossus of Rhodes, the first comprehensive examination of the Colossus, Nathan Badoud mobilises a large array of sources, ranging from antiquity to the present day, proposing an intellectual excavation through the layers of the literary, artistic, and scientific tradition to discover the historical Colossus.
MoreLong description:
The Colossus of Rhodes is both the most famous and the least well-known monument of Ancient Greece. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the World, this bronze statue of the god Helios, thirty-four metres in height, was created by the sculptor Chares of Lindos between the years 295 and 283 BC, only to be destroyed by an earthquake in 227 BC. The legends which have spread after its collapse seem so strange and contradictory that specialists in Greek sculpture have been dissuaded from investigating the topic. Nathan Badoud publishes the first comprehensive study devoted to the Colossus. His book mobilises a large array of sources, ranging from antiquity to the present day. It proposes an intellectual excavation through the layers of the literary, artistic, and scientific tradition. It envisages the statue in its religious, political, and topographical contexts. It explores its function, its technique, its appearance, its meaning, and its location. It reconsiders the beginnings of the Hellenistic world, marked by the emergence of Rhodes as an imperial power, embodied by the Colossus.
This book, an intellectual excavation of the monument, is the result of a long investigation by Nathan Badoud, who has published extensively on the Colossus and related topics in French and English. His command of the sources is impressive, and this publication appears to present everything there is to know about the statue and its wide context. The material is clearly structured in seven chapters and sections with useful cross-references and indexes. The result is a masterful cultural history of a monument that is as iconic as it is elusive.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Rise Of Helios
The Kolossoí
The Artist
The Kolossós Of Rhodes
Over The Seas And On The Land
The Location Of The Colossus Of Rhodes
The Image Of The Statue
Conclusion
