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COLOSSUS RHODES

Colossus-Rhodes
The Colossus-Rhodes statue stood for only fifty-four years until Rhodes was hit by an earthquake in 226 BC. The statue snapped at the knees and fell over on to 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.
 
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