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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch
Monday, August 31, 2009
Rebuilding the Colussus of Rhodes
In November 2008, it was announced that the Colossus of Rhodes was to be rebuilt. According to Dr. Dimitris Koutoulas, who is heading the project in Greece, rather than reproducing the original Colossus, the new structure will be a, "highly, highly innovative light structure, one that will stand between 60 and 100 metres tall so that people can physically enter it." The project is expected to cost up to €200m which will be provided by international donors and the German artist Gert Hof. The new Colossus will adorn an outer pier in the harbour area of Rhodes, where it will be visible to passing ships. Koutoulas said, "Although we are still at the drawing board stage, Gert Hof's plan is to make it the world's largest light installation, a structure that has never before been seen in any place of the world."
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Here's a link to a article at the Guardian about this
This is kind of ridiculous, considering the fact that we don't even know what the Colossus of Rhodes looked like. It collapsed due to an earthquake in 226 B.C. Most of the pictures based on historical descriptions are probably inaccurate, as they show a strait going under the Colossus. If this were true, then the earthquake would have caused the statue to fall into that strait, blocking the port. But other historical descriptions claim that after the Colossus fell, anyone could go up to the fallen Colossus (until it was dismantled). So, I think it's kind of ridiculous that they're "rebuilding" a statue without knowing what the original looked like.
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