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Various parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned, [2] although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father; [3] for Herodorus of Heraclea she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon, [4] while according to Diodorus Siculus she was the daughter of Poseidon and Halia, one of the Telchines, the original rulers of Rhodes. [5]
The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
Rhodes Town Ring Road (Phase 1): Beginning from the new marina and ending to Rhodes-Kallithea province avenue is a four lane expressway. Future roads: [citation needed] Further widening of Rhodes-Lindos National Avenue (Greek National Road 95) from Kolympia to Lindos. This is to be four lane with a jersey barrier in the middle. A tender is ...
19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient ... Apollonius of Rhodes, ... He did this and became the ruler of the Titans with his sister-wife ...
He named it Rhodes, after his lover Rhode (the daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite [88] or Amphitrite [89]), and it became the god's sacred island, where he was honoured above all other gods. With Rhode Helios sired seven sons, known as the Heliadae ("sons of the Sun"), who became the first rulers of the island, as well as one daughter ...
The gods (Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo) eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes; [34] particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants [13] (according to Nonnus, they did so as revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae). [4]
Chares of Lindos (/ ˈ k ɛər iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χάρης ὁ Λίνδιος, gen.: Χάρητος; before 305 BC – c.280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos. [1] Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and the patron god of ...