The Colossus of Rhodes - The Mystery Behind the Tallest Statue in the Ancient World

In this long installment of Trey the Explainer, I will discuss the mysterious origins, history, and fate of the Colossus of Rhodes: Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World. We will learn a lot about Hellenistic history, Greek archaeology, ancient art, and the nature of building too tall. I hope you enjoy and learn something new from this video!
0:00 Introduction
1:58 Brief History of Rhodes
6:14 The Construction
12:33 Sources and Myth Telling
18:24 Archaeology of the Colossus
21:10 Alexander and the Colossus
23:50 JoJo Pose
27:32 Then the Earth Shook...
31:25 Where did it stand?
33:23 The Giant's Legacy
Artist Rafael Mena's social media contacts:
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Background Music used: "With a Stamp", "Life in Romance", "An Evening A Lifetime" by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org) "Lost Frotiner", "Elf Meditation", "Blue Feather" by Kevin Macleod
Citations:
Jordan, Paul (2014). Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Routledge.
Rieger N.F. (2004) Engineering Aspects of the Collapse of the Colossus of Rhodes Statue. In: Ceccarelli M. (eds) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Springer, Dordrecht.
Maryon, Herbert (1956). The Colossus of Rhodes. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1956, Vol. 76 (1956), pp. 68-86.
Daehner, Jens M.; Lapatin, Kenneth; Spinelli, Ambra [eds] (2017). Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes.
Vedder, U. (2015). Was the Colossus of Rhodes Cast in Courses or in Large Sections?,. Retrieved December 22, 2020, from www.academia.edu/35708216/Was...
Higgins, Reynold (1988) "The Colossus of Rhodes" p. 130, in The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Peter A. Clayton and Martin Jessop Price (eds.). Psychology Press, ISBN 9780415050364.
Most images were retrieved from the Wikimedia Commons and Public Domain. Please contact me if I did not attribute you correctly.
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[@TREYtheExplainer]

Sorry for being dead for 4 months.

[@lukeskywalker9016]

no problem, as long as u upload its ok 😎 👍

[@RichMitch]

Well, it's just not good enough!

[@lunarholiday1377]

Just make sure the ressurection ritual went properly, or else there may be dire consequences

[@AnarKhaos]

welcome back from the dead

[@galaxygeneral1200]

Trey I started watching your videos right when you stopped uploading... lol I watched all your videos then had to go four months without you! Also I really liked all your paranormal videos about moth man and the owl thing. I would love you to make more videos about those types of things. Thanks!

[@jjmarz1001]

True story: In 1987 I spent six hours wandering the streets of Rhodes looking to find the famous Colossus statue.

[@JediPolock]

It’s ok, there wasn’t any internet back then

[@user-fl6ww3rs5q]

Well don’t keep us hanging did you find it!? 😳

[@protendi]

Did you find it though?

[@CNNBlackmailSupport]

"Hmmm... it looked bigger in the brochure." -Macedonian Tourist, 356 B.C.

[@zanemob1429]

I’m so sorry…

[@Tyrantlizard]

He's returned, everyone surround him, and make sure he doesn't escape again.

[@zeus2213]

No you fool! That's not him, its just a barn owl!

[@Deshift00]

he's about as elusive as a cryptid

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

*takes out the ropes

[@eldritchbeer]

Goddammit we got another containment breach!

[@_xx4632]

Ok

[@GrayCatbird1]

I didn’t know the statue had stood for only 55 years. Perhaps that explains why there is so little information about it. But yeah, its impact on culture is fascinating

[@RubenKelevra]

I mean it's a metal structure in a vertical size never constructed before, right at the mouth of a sea harbor. Unbelievable that it stood there for 55 years.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@RubenKelevra The fact that the Greece was earthquake land also makes it rather impressive. It's as if the 7 wonders were taken down and only the one remained.

[@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN]

55 years is actually pretty long all things considered

[@stewartmackay]

I live on Rhodes. If you go down to the harbour on each pier of the old harbour is a column with a deer on top. The deer is the symbol of Rhodes. These columns supposedly sit where the feet of the Colossus stood, if he were to be straddling the harbour entrance. However, some people I have spoken to say the statue stood on the hill where the medieval palace of the knights sits today. I was also told that there was no cloak on the statue, an old trick often used to create a third leg and hence a tripod. So with only two legs, and the earthquakes we get here, he supposedly snapped at the knees and the Rhodians believed they had angered Helios by creating his likeness. It lay for 300 years before being sold for scrap to a Syrian trader. How accurate that is, I don't know, but I like to think it's a possibility. Thanks for the very well made video.

[@NealBones]

Thank you for the bit of local lore! I like to think that the stories passed down to people in the areas they happened at least hold some weight 😁

[@kymrawlins8099]

Wow thanks Stewart for the extra info, that was really intetesting🙂

[@laurencesmith2199]

I heard Souness tackled him from behind and the ref gave a bye kick .

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

Yes, the medieval Grand Master's castle is on the highest point of land, so that would make sense.

[@DeneF]

The small castle of Saint Nicholas at the end of the peer that forms one side of Mandraki harbour. That circular building has much, much older plinths in some of is window spaces. These plinths are slightly curved from end to end. If you work out the circumference of the circle these window plinths would have created would be the same size as Saint Nicholas Castle, this giving a perfect base for the colossus to stand on. As I write this I see the video is just speaking about it now. Lol. I lived there for 7 beautiful years.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Honestly the most beautiful thing about the Colossus is the bonus it gives me in Civ.

[@lollakasfamilianimi3246]

It is a powerhouse of a wonder in civ5, makes Venice so viable

[@taptiotrevizo9415]

A true player here

[@cosmic3004]

it's very powerful to have in rome : total war as well

[@d.m.collins1501]

How did the Colossus go to the bathroom up there all by hisself? (Must have had a Coloss-tomy bag.)

[@MaximilianOOO491]

I agree!!!

[@Sunshine-yr3ut]

The "straddling the harbor" pose is hilarious to me. Other than it being impractical and unstable, you'd have to see Helios' taint anytime you went through the harbor.

[@peterprime2140]

I don't see the downside to this.

[@Sunshine-yr3ut]

@@peterprime2140 It honestly would add another level to the whole experience haha

[@danshi0]

I wouldn't mind that honestly

[@ANTSEMUT1]

It's not like they'd actually model the taint in the sculpture.

[@danshi0]

@@ANTSEMUT1 I mean... they modeled individual nuts and nipples why not taint its part of the human body

[@foodank_atr817]

I imagine a traveler describing the statue as so... "Its so tall. Taller than any building. Taller than any tree. It stands on a base next to the harbor inlet. It's so big it could straddle the harbor entrance..." Then after dozens of years and hundreds of retellings the "it could" was shifted to an "it does".

[@fishcati5620]

*People of Rhodes:* "We built a statue to honor our favorite god!" *Helios:* "hmm... I don't like it." "Hey Poseidon?"

[@brwasalih]

Kratos laughing in distance

[@KRDecade2009]

You know I expected this level of petty from Zeus but Helios? Damn dude you could’ve just told them a bouquet would’ve been fine

[@raystargazer7468]

Poseidon? Could you do that thing? Poseidon: Yeah, no problem. *a thousand screams and rumbling sounds*

[@arcotroll8530]

@@brwasalih Kratos is not a genuine part of Greek mythology. Or Norse mythology for that matter.

[@swampdonkey1567]

@@arcotroll8530 actually kratos is I can't remember the exact thing he represented I believe it was strength or fighting (but not war), I don't remember exactly he was very loyal in mythology. Oh and technically most pagans belived other panthones were either different gods for different lands or just remaining of there gods. For example the Greeks thought the Odin was zeus but neccesarily all the nordic gods, there were even interactions with celtic gods and greek gods, generally celts, germans, nordics, and Greeks and much more agreed that each others were real. It wasn't really till Rome when gods started to be merged even then they still belived some gods were still separate, many pantheon and even Jesus* (going by one respectable Roman historian who belived he either learned magic in egypt or was a weak God) (Heck many Christians aleast in the past agreed pantheon were real beings, just usually demons). This practice was very common outside Europe in asia, Shinto and Traditional chinese religions had similar relations and most notably Hinduism. So technically a Kratos (not the game one) exists in greek mythology and probably nordic, kinda, idk if any direct mentions cause he is isn't considered very important, but if you asked a nordic they would probably say he exists but was weaker then there equivalent.

[@realityhelix564]

Can you imagine how terrifying it must have been, to see that thing come down? The noise alone. The sense of ending. This thing that defined your home, just gone, sun where its shadow once was.

[@realityhelix564]

Did they mourn the death of their god?

[@Kuwagumo]

Truly, an "end of times" situation

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

They said it sounded like a 'loud bell' but....just the echoing, the quake, the looming groan as it slowly fell over. It makes me curious.

[@caspertms8543]

@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid the way u described that makes me think of when the giant croc came down at the end of "Hook" and ate hook.

[@caspertms8543]

@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid especially the "looming groan as it fell" part.

[@c4feg4r44]

its cool to imagine, if a works that epic in proportions can be reduced to mere rumor and vague accounts. what other wonders got lost to time.

[@pedrobolsi8366]

Imagine how the people of that time felt about their Works? Imagine how the romans felt about their roads, aqueducts, palaces, bridges. Must have felt pretty secure and stable right? Almost like we the west feel today about our own works. Think about it...

[@dkupke]

In relation to the Colossus being modeled after Alexander; there are a number of recorded accounts, but no remaining physical evidence, of a bronze obelisk erected by the tribes on India on the site of Alexander’s last camp before he decided to end his campaign in the Punjab. This monument is said to have had a single lime of dialogue, “Alexander stopped here.”

[@nogoodgod4915]

@@pedrobolsi8366 In a million years nothing that we have build will still be around.

[@curtislowe4577]

If the Library of Alexandria hadn't burned (multiple times) we would probably know many, many thousands more bits of trivia about the ancient world. Unfortunately Alexandria changed hands (violently) many times.

[@invisible3972]

I would've liked to be inmortal only to have been able to see such wonders

[@rasguero914]

I'd love to watch a video (same format) about the hanging gardens of babylon. Kinda has the same vibes (at least to me), maybe a little bit more "hyped/romanticized" as it might be slightly more famous.

[@Mikelaxo]

There's no real evidence that those gardens really existed, they're pretty much a myth

[@numberonehater1239]

More than slightly more famous

[@joshuatendoornkaat8558]

I love the romantic, dramatic story elements you worked into this video essay, it makes the viewer feel much more involved in the subject. Nice work and a lovely video!

[@user-nx4nc9ob9m]

When the world needed him the most, he returned. Welcome back, Trey.

[@TREYtheExplainer]

Aww thank you thank you ^^ happy to be back!

[@parkersaurus2205]

Merry christmas too

[@BradWatsonMiami]

The Statue of Helios (Greek: the Sun) at Rhodes like the Statue of Liberty had 7 rays/spikes pointing out of its head representing the '7 Sacred Planets'/'7 Classical Planets': Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars Jupiter, and Saturn. 4 of these can't be seen during the day/4 don't cast shadows on Earth. The ancients also observed the 4 primary lunar phases of roughly 7 (~7.4) days each, thus the 7-day week and 4 weeks in a 'moonth'. The lunar year + 7 day week + 4 days = solar year. Etc. GOD=7_4 Theory; see GOD704.fandom.com .

[@DarkSnP]

I've noticed this is just how he post 2 years to see it develop. I'm enjoying the slow brew KZbinrs more and more these days

[@coatofarms4439]

“The god didn’t like the statue” He really really made that point clear.

[@t111ran3]

@Nic Dot Nic most likely people of Rhodes themselves didn't want to rebuild the statue, and used the gods as an excuse. I think the fact that the creator killed himself just because how bad the statue turned out is saying something. People back than were smart, but lacked necessary experience with this kind of projects. Colossus, IMO, was far from perfect.

[@CourtlandMiller1994]

Dong too small for Helios’s ego 😂

[@RichardJohnson1969]

@Nic Dot Nic You’re literally a furry, subhuman

[@anima6035]

@@RichardJohnson1969 rude

[@hornitako7006]

@@CourtlandMiller1994 people back then actually preferred small pp and big ones are considered beastly and uncivilized

[@mattsam8081]

As a Rhodian myself , I feel absolutely honored to see someone in KZbin explain the whole story behind Colossus .

[@kymrawlins8099]

I love finding stuff out about history such as the Colossus of Rhodes.

[@AnaisAzuli]

Ah I've been last year, absolutely loved your island. Friendliest people I've met so far :)

[@larrygrimaldi1400]

True, a lot more detail than ordinarily heard!

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I honestly wish it could be remade today. If only some could would offer Turkey the gift of rebuilding the colossus of Rhodes. Just as what France did for America in building the Statue of Liberty.

[@imperfectcell7081]

​@@therealspeedwagon1451Rhodes is in Greece ,not Turkey.

[@wezzard]

I visited Rhodes a couple of years ago. I decided to follow a friendly stray dog and he became my tour guide.. xD We even went through an opening in the ancient city wall and the ruins were filled with red poppy. Beautiful city!

[@concept5631]

Did you tip your guide?

[@senhoritajose]

DO NOT DO THIS ❗️❗️❗️ Most stray dogs are actually Zeus in disguise trying to seduce men and women!!! If you follow the dog long enough you will eventually be seduced !!!❗️❗️❗️

[@jonasholzer4422]

That's exactly why I like ancient greece. They were like: "Let's build a HUGE hot dude statue"

[@derpynerdy6294]

The Greek and roman eras were the heights of civilization being able to create magnificent structures and society but then it all crashed after the fall of the roman empire then now we risen up after a thousand year and slowly well probably fall once again

[@ailouros24]

well i dont know how to feel about it. like trey says in the beginning of the video "instead of deeding the poor, they decided to build a statue". monuments are statements of ego. they are a show of prosperity. the good part is that they were funded by private funds half the time. imagine if we got the rich dudes like bezos to chip in today. we could have a city in the clouds.

[@johnbockelie3899]

"Lets build a giant statue of that HOT dude, the Sun God , Helios ( Apollo in Rome, Italy ) It was probably built cheap, that's why it caved in eventually.

[@valletas]

@@ailouros24 thats what makes me angry at least elon musk is trying to put the man on mars but bezos has a LOT of money and isnt really doing anything with it

[@1daveyp]

*clapping* Bravo, one pf my favourite YT comments in a long while, :-)

[@n3croticism]

It's amazing how the colossus was depicted centuries later by Chinese and Japanese artists. Just shows how fascinating the idea was. Today, we would call that fanart.

[@TMPreRaff]

Well... you would.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@TMPreRaff Guess he would call copies "fanfics"

[@stxtics4205]

For REALL!!

[@mattchristensen9424]

You can't trust anything the Chinese are part of

[@Boorger]

What are religions if not just some really old, really widespread fandoms?

[@RobRoss]

When I was young, and heard the stories of these giant ancient statues, I was always thinking “why don’t we build giant statues any more?” But we do. The Statue of Liberty is about the same height as the Colossus was, and we have even taller statues in the modern world. Like the Statue Of Unity, for example, which is over twice as tall as the Colossus.

[@leonardoanacadios995]

You just make the best historical videos out there. You got the rigth balance between humor, historical accuracy, research, inspiration, awe, and an eerie sensation of time that I can't just describe.

[@graciliraptor3990]

Imagine the reaction of the guy who found THAT in his fishing net.

[@amia560]

that's one heavy fish

[@walterfortunato9297]

@@amia560 colossus man with a normal sized "fish"

[@LimeyLassen]

I'd expect it to grant me 3 wishes

[@walterfortunato9297]

@@LimeyLassen is that where no nut November came from

[@mikaelpalm2130]

"Not another decaying Basking shark!"

[@sarnxero2628]

The bronze age collapse was caused by Kaiju and the Colossus of Rhodes was humanity's only defense. The price to defeat the Kaiju was great but humanity survived to rebuild.

[@DeltaOdyssey]

This sounds like a great idea for a story

[@microwavedcheetos]

The Colossus was actually a giant mech the Rhodes road

[@yoursotruly]

@@microwavedcheetos I believe the Rhodes rode the Colossus on the road but I'm no Rhodes scholar, if the Colossus rode the Trojan Horse, that would be a road warrior!

[@LimeyLassen]

And he's still waiting at the bottom of the sea, should humanity ever need him again

[@DeltaOdyssey]

@@yoursotruly That sounds even better

[@sdack3511]

I never expected that a video about a huge statue would get me to cry

[@BlacksmithTim]

FYI: You mention "bronze with a little copper added". Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. Adding more copper ... is a curious statement. (But I'm a part time blacksmith and play with this stuff so I notice.) Love your work, BTW. Thank you.

[@Brakvash]

*NUDITY* Ancient Greece: it's art Present World: *fierce giggling*

[@morganrobinson8042]

The Greeks were very comfortable with male sexuality, but they were most likely staring at his junk too, just for different reasons. Don't let classists fool you; ancient art was as much about fart jokes, commercialized sexuality, and spending exorbitant amounts as conspicuous consumption with no thought to artistic merit as much then as it is now. A fair chuck of nude sculpture was probably as intentionally sexualized as my Grandfather's explicit nude of Leto and the Swan that he hung in his living room because he was an archetypical dirty old man. People don't change, we just lionize ancient people because temples and large scale public works are what lasts enough to hear about, and tend to be a little more self-possessed.

[@nopenope7826]

@@morganrobinson8042 ancient greeks actually worked out butt naked and thus the word gym comes from gymnasium (γυμνάσιο) which is a product of the word "γυμνός" which means naked

[@joy-wire]

@@nopenope7826 Fun fact, in modern Greek γυμνάσιο is the Greek middle school (no idea why), and γυμναστήριο means gym, γυμναστική is exercise

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

@@joy-wire in portuguese you can use the word "ginásio" to refer to the middle school too, and "ginástica" to exercise. Greek has influenced almost every language in europe hahah cool

[@f.7681]

@@morganrobinson8042 Didnt they also show statues of the gods as nude because they saw gods as perfect beings?

[@aidengoodrich5974]

imagine someone eating with a spoon that was originally a part of the colossus

[@theoheinrich529]

And the bronze was on the groin part xd

[@josephdanieljirehdimacali4418]

@@theoheinrich529 or its dong?

[@wynstonsmith7194]

Not a stretch: I've heard the Colossus was so fucking huge that even today most bronze objects have traces of the same bronze used in that statue

[@luckyblockyoshi]

@@wynstonsmith7194 the Statue of Liberty itself is around 15 meters taller than the estimated height of the Colossus of Rhodes, so no, definitely not lmao

[@peterprime2140]

Hell of a flex tbh.

[@Khainite]

Great and very informative video. There's a tragic quality to the loss of the Colossus, and it's a shame there's not even a single part of it that we can find left. Even something so dominant and radiant fell in a relatively short amount of time and faded into legend. Fitting for an ancient Greek titan.

[@kyrab7914]

There's smthn to be said for humans' capability/want to see cool shit ppl made, esp ppl who came before us. Like, sure maybe it can be polluted by things like racism (ie these ancient ppl show how advanced ✨ we are now), but I think at the base there's just a very human urge to connect, and curiosity to see cool stuff.

[@charlodynatimberheart4860]

It's fascinating how the pyramids and the colossus represent the two endings for the same kind of prestigious mega-structure. The colossus represented their survival, will, and resilience. their victory, and it collapsed in less than 55 years. the pyramids represented how even the most powerful demigods must face the inevitability of death, and they stand tall and proud even to this day

[@v3ck1n]

​@@charlodynatimberheart4860The pyramids of Giza have literally zero to do with a tomb or a grave.

[@spankynater4242]

It never existed.

[@lambdaweaponscache5394]

Probably one of my favorite videos from you- your calm narration, detailed coverage of the history of the statue/related topics and sparse but welcome humor is always something i look forward too.

[@SirSomeguy]

You can’t fool me. I played God of War II. I know the truth: Zeus brought the statue to life to kill Kratos and he proceeded to smash it apart at the face.

[@rainpooper7088]

*And then along came Zeus*

[@neodintchly]

ZOOOOOS

[@BradWatsonMiami]

The Statue of Helios (Greek: the Sun) at Rhodes like the Statue of Liberty had 7 rays/ spikes pointing out of its head representing the '7 Sacred Luminaires'/'7 Classical Planets': Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars Jupiter, and Saturn. 4 of these can't be seen during the day/4 don't cast shadows on Earth. The ancients also observed the 4 primary lunar phases of roughly 7 (~7.4) days each, thus the 7-day week and 4 weeks in a 'moonth'. The lunar year + 7 day week + 4 days = solar year. Roman Calendar's 7 thirty-one day months + 4 thirty day months + February's 28 (7x4) days. Orion is 7 stars: 4 are his shoulders & feet + Orion's Belt. BIG Dipper & Little Dipper are 7 stars each with 4 in the bowl. The Pleaides/7 sisters is the 4th most recognizable asterism. Mars returns to the same point against the background stars and in relationship to the Sun and Earth every 47 years. GOD=7_4 Theory; see Seal #2 at 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could have produced that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/ Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 is part of Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

[@SirSomeguy]

@@BradWatsonMiami I'm sorry, what the heck does any of that mess have to do with God of War II?

[@pimpskittelz]

@@BradWatsonMiami Never in all my days did I think I'd find this level of rambling, worth the time for a read

[@TheTonyMcD]

"Bronze with maybe a little bit of copper mixed in." I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that there was definitely some copper in this bronze statue. Probably around 85% or so copper....

[@infernomunky]

Beat me to the Alloy comment... I wonder if the research said a bit of gold mixed in? Much like the ancient corrosion resistant Corinthian Bronzes of legend.

[@ieshi23]

could be some bronze parts and some copper parts

[@jakub_paints6775]

Wanted to say the same. Like no shit there was copper

[@ricky-sanchez]

Damn statue was probably struck by lightning, and the statue fell, causing a huge earthquake.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

@@ieshi23 Well, you can be sure the balls were made of brass.

[@MegaKaims]

My favorite wonder of the ancient world is The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which I think are the most mysterious of all the wonders :D Its sad that most people know of it ,but many dont understand how amazing the garden actually was

[@Alex-mv6yp]

Imagine that after the fall of modern society the only thing remaining to recall the colossus of rhodes it's a vaprowave album cover and some edits.

[@quique7764]

I'm surprised there haven't been any miniatures found, reliefs & or other images given it was one of the seven wonders.

[@miss_baphomet]

remember the concept of the seven wonders didn't come into existence until about a century after the Colossus fell, what existed then would have been the rubble described by strabo and pliny

[@wranglerboi]

Quique - Yeah, I "wondered" about that, too.

[@curtislowe4577]

Who knows? The Library at Alexandria might have had a travel section. Possibly there were scrolls with several drawings and descriptions of the best restaurants and nightclubs in Rhodes. Maybe the hottest tourist attraction in Rhodes with the line around the block was Dimetrios' Dancing Under The Dong. But unfortunately Alexandria was not exactly a university town and the library burned to the ground several times.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

The Statue of Helios (Greek: the Sun) at Rhodes like the Statue of Liberty had 7 rays/ spikes pointing out of its head representing the '7 Sacred Luminaires'/'7 Classical Planets': Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars Jupiter, and Saturn. 4 of these can't be seen during the day/4 don't cast shadows on Earth. The ancients also observed the 4 primary lunar phases of roughly 7 (~7.4) days each, thus the 7-day week and 4 weeks in a 'moonth'. The lunar year + 7 day week + 4 days = solar year. Roman Calendar's 7 thirty-one day months + 4 thirty day months + February's 28 (7x4) days. Orion is 7 stars: 4 are his shoulders & feet + Orion's Belt. BIG Dipper & Little Dipper are 7 stars each with 4 in the bowl. The Pleaides/7 sisters is the 4th most recognizable asterism. Mars returns to the same point against the background stars and in relationship to the Sun and Earth every 47 years. GOD=7_4 Theory; see Seal #2 at 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could have produced that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/ Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 is part of Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

[@Greeze]

@@BradWatsonMiami take your meds, bro

[@N.S.A.]

Others say the statute came to life through the power of the Gods and tried to kill Kratos with quick time events.

[@taliakellegg5978]

Is that a fuck god of war reference? I remember that from my young childhood

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

We all know what happened to the statue, it got its head exploded by the god of war and sank into the sea

[@TMPreRaff]

Um... the word is statue.

[@snarf2400]

@@gustavodeoliveira5254 Crushed Kratos on his way down though, gottem

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

@@snarf2400 legit the funniest thing in the entire series.

[@richh6001]

Love learning about the history, culture, and art behind all of this!

[@down2play214]

I’ve been sick at the hospital for damn near a week now and your videos have been keeping me sane through the pain, thank you Trey for your videos

[@madmarscha]

so fucked up that it only stood for 54 years... i want to fucking cry bro

[@katyungodly]

That’s sad bro

[@planescaped]

Even worse that a shittheaded conqueror melted down the remains and sold them. The early muslims just like the Altaic hordes, were notorious for their disrespect of foreign cultures. Wasn't until the Ottomans actually had to start living beside others that they cooled the fuck down slightly. I mean, it was a normal progression... modern Islamic society though doesn't like to remember how they started out though, I suppose because it is so inflammatory to some. At this point, it is literally ancient history. >__>

[@basiliska]

rip in peace colossus :(

[@grandsome1]

This video tingles my mechanical engineering and my art history training, fun fact: most of the Hellenic statues have capes to act as subtle support for the statues, that's because the human form only stands due to dynamic systems i. e. muscles which a statue 🗽 doesn't have (sub fun fact it's also the reason insects spring on their back when they die), it's only with the innovation of adding iron bars inside the statue that we start to see dynamic poses in Hellenic statues.

[@smolmolmol3413]

Owo

[@elmonko5068]

That's cool as hell oh my god

[@RoarOfWolverine]

As a sculptor, who has sculpted many large statues up to 15 and 20 feet. One was actually 40 feet tall. I sculpted an 83’ statue for Disney, it was Kha from Jungle Book, so it was wrapped around one of the castle spires on Cinderella’s castle in the Orlando park, so the spire was the support. A made a 15’ Zeus for Disney also, it his toga was wide enough at the base to support him. The 12’ Hercules though had a cape, but not large enough to reach the ground, so it took a steel skeleton inside of him to support him. The problem with the human form is that the ankles are far too thin to support a statue without capes, togas or some other cloth. I sculpted a 16’ Neptune and 12’ Venus once and the Neptune was holding a cloth behind him. Holding a corner of the cloth in each hand and the cloak draped just below his ass, but was attached to the back of his le and draped to the ground for support. Venus was standing inside of a shell, so the back of the shell was used to attach to the back of her legs to support her. We usually try to work in cloth to accomplish the support for the human statutes because the ankles would snap off without a large steel skeleton inside.

[@chucklebutt4470]

@@RoarOfWolverine That's really cool!

[@sunbeames1847]

I can't imagine how great the statue was before Zeus decided to kill Kratos.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

Considering the tourist money I think they are really missing out not making a copy. It would pay for itself in tourist revenue within a few years not even decades. The Angel of the north in the UK has been massive for tourism locally and yet most locals moaned about it when they spent the money. most people don't understand the value of art to an economy but once it was built they would love it and be immensely proud of it. They just need to make it the same height and as close as they can guess.

[@austinpoudrette1574]

36 more minutes of Treys soothing voice, and a historical video as well! Looking forward to it bud. Happy holidays.

[@watfgjgk]

Imagine still existing in the present day. This post was made by C. Of Rhodes Gang

[@deacon6453]

Imagine ever existing in the first place.* This post was made by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon gang

[@darchandarchan7036]

imagine that giant statue carved in mountain existed and made it through to this day.

[@3nthamornin]

Imagine this post was made by john lennon gang

[@MrChristianDT]

Even if nothing helped it along, I find it hard to imagine a giant, metal, top-heavy statue on the ocean would have survived 2000 years, though.

[@bluemobster0023]

@@MrChristianDT it was made of bronze

[@MultiSciGeek]

26:14 Considering it took them 12 years to complete it, maybe at the time of the unveiling the head was green and the legs were orange.

[@alicelima2320]

This statue was the inspiration for the Titan of Braavos in the Song of Ice and Fire books. Actually, many things in G.R.R. Martin's books are inspired by real places and monuments.

[@concept5631]

You mean GrrM?

[@alicelima2320]

@@concept5631 yeah, I only now have seen my mistake lol The word for J (jay) has a similar pronunciation to the way G sounds in my mother language. I think my brain mixed things up lol 😅

[@concept5631]

@@alicelima2320 Understandable

[@begbabeh4638]

"Having lunch under the colossus' mighty dong" Best sentence, hands down

[@waffleonquaffle]

And probably not true, since in Ancient Greece people considered small dicks better than big ones

[@adrianbundy3249]

@@waffleonquaffle There probably wasn't a preference tbh. And besides, if much bigger one did get put into a statue, they might have been one of the easiest and first pieces to weather right off, or break off due to any number of other means. As it stands, we have plenty of statues left that once had dongs, that no longer have dongs, big or small, just due to this and the Christians largely censoring those statues later.

[@error5202]

@@waffleonquaffle Did they now? www.thecollector.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image3-6.jpg

[@gregoryalbert379]

...Perhaps having lunch under a metal protrusion, would require an umbrella, due to condensation on a foggy misty day !

[@shellsbignumber2]

@@waffleonquaffle Yeah I guess they were all pedos.

[@robynsegg]

"You spend your whole life building a guy's toe, you're gonna remember him!" -- Bender Rodriguez ("A Pharaoh To Remember", Futurama) 🤣

[@violenceisfun991]

Its Ha-Peaness

[@robynsegg]

@IfWhiningAtProblemsWorks, WhyDoCorporationsLobby? I don't know. You'd have to asked Bender that yourself.

[@alexmason5521]

@IfWhiningAtProblemsWorks, WhyDoCorporationsLobby? ok?

[@richarddemuth7077]

"KOLOSSOS" in Greek was derived from the word "KOLLIZO"..... meaning "JOINED TOGETHER", usually by "GLUING" since "KOLLOS" was the word for "GLUE". "KOLLIZO" is also the origin of our English word "COLLIDE" referring to two or more things crashing TOGETHER. I have to SERIOUSLY doubt they actually "GLUED" the giant statue together BUT, it MIGHT refer to a form of CEMENT they used to keep the outer bronze plates STUCK TO the rubble-filled iron framework.

[@danawinsor1380]

This video is interesting and informativem your narration is clear, and your voice is pleasing to listen to. I don't know why it's taken me so long to find this chanel. Best wishes!

[@Wapnerzebra16]

"Instead of using this money to, I don't know, feed the poor and needy..." No one feeds the poor and needy because no one is going to make a video about it 2300 years later

[@alexmuller6752]

yeah, nobody remembers the roman habit of giving food to the poor in the capital :D

[@ReformedThe]

@@alexmuller6752 lol if that is suppose to be a counter point it fell flat.

[@alexmuller6752]

@@ReformedThe not a counter at all. just a statement with a cheeky grin.

[@gomahklawm4446]

@@ReformedThe Most anyone who knows anything about Rome knows about the grain dole.

[@amandataylor6434]

Lol right.

[@aa-to6ws]

Years in the future there would be legends that claimed people of this age were so powerful in science and technology, giant emerald women protected cities and fought literal wars for liberty.

[@markcobuzzi826]

Nostalgia Critic: “Over here, you'll see the statue of the mouse god named Mickey!”

[@theq4602]

Ghostbusters will be used as a documentary.

[@glenmcgillivray4707]

Clearly in the era of the rise of Nuclear weapons, they were deployed against Zombie Plauges. Contemporary sources suggest Zombies in the era were common, and fought using every weapon available: entire cities were littered with sufficient infestation so as to render them mostly uninhabitable. The leaders and rulers created media for the purpose of teaching their populations how to fight back, and defeat differing strains of Zombie plauge, and ready their citizens to tolerate and understand the meaning of 'acceptable losses' for even a single infected scratch could cause friends or family to turn into blood thirsty monsters and spread the Epidemic. We do not see or understand how the media known as 'My Little Pony' was used: presumably as light entertainment in the face of the horrors of the world around them. - Historian after finding scraps of Zombie Movies and some My Little Pony DVD's are decoded into viable video format, some of the only relevant information remaining from the Fragments left over from the 'Modern Era'

[@markcobuzzi826]

@@glenmcgillivray4707 And those Zombie Plagues were so rampant that citizens needed to be trained for combat since childhood. To help accomplish this, a specialized genre of video games was created for the sole purpose of teaching kids the vital tactics for slaying hordes of zombies. Three video game corporations in particular have been credited as the most heroic in these war efforts: Capcom, Sega, and Valve.

[@iwannabethekid34xc]

The man of tomorrow, should we live to see his birth, will remark at how frail, weak, and feeble-minded the "man" of today is, and he will totally crush and conquer all of his foes and usher into a great new Golden Era that may last an eternity.

[@awesome331000]

This is so fascinating! Been watching since 2013 and this is probably my fav video

[@geralldus]

Thank you, very interesting and well researched.

[@DaleClark1000]

Thank god you covered their pee-pee's to protect our morals. Now I won't have to flog myself for evil thoughts.

[@TMPreRaff]

There's no apostrophe in pee pees... (that's the first time today I've used that phrase).

[@rokukou]

@@TMPreRaff Hahaha thank you. Here before someone is mean to you for correcting.

[@personarandom7579]

You're afraid of pps lmao

[@Cooe.]

It's to prevent demonetization ya freaking dingus... -_-

[@rokukou]

@@Cooe. Maybe, but most likely not. Educational videos do not need to be censored, as I remember at least.

[@daddyleon]

8:34 The "Lycipian gaze", truly, was the "duck face" of its time.

[@caligulalonghbottom2629]

more like the annoying furled brows of the mid 2000s (2008-20013ish) or the modern annoying tik tok poses people try to pull in real life to look cute.

[@thedumbdog1964]

Forgot that was a thing

[@daddyleon]

@@thedumbdog1964 I'm sorry to have reminded you.

[@jimmymcmorgan7827]

Zoolander had it down.

[@thenomad531]

Excellent production. Thank you so very much for the education .

[@SpencerFoustLovesYou]

I stepped away from this video for a couple weeks, only to pick up at 23:43 and choke on my breakfast

[@suleimansghk]

when the world needed him most, he returned. merry Christmas trey.

[@treyxyz]

Thanks, marry Christmas Dino

[@suleimansghk]

@@treyxyz your welcome

[@CthulhusDream]

9:12 Saying "Bronze with maybe a little copper mixed in." is like saying "Stainless Steel with a bit of iron mixed in". Copper is the main ingredient in the alloy that is bronze .

[@Brinta3]

I think he meant that most of the statue was clad with bronze, but some parts with pure copper. Perhaps they did this to make use of slightly different colours? Copper turns green much faster than bronze. I found this sentence on google, and it mentions bronze and copper separately: “Finally, in the 7th Century AD, the Arabs had conquered Rhodes and broke up the remains of the Colossus of Rhodes into smaller pieces selling its bronze and copper, worth quite a hefty amount at that time.”

[@hedgehog3180]

@@Brinta3 Copper is more ductile than bronze so perhaps that is why it was used separately? It might have been used for things like the face which is more detailed.

[@ulalaFrugilega]

This comment plus its answers are exactly why I love and trust KZbin. Watch sth. like this on the telly you're helpless prey to whatever errors the makers make. Here, you can profit from the vast knowledge of humanity, and add your own two cents as well.

[@BlackWhiteCater]

"At Rhodes was set up a Colossus of seventy cubits high, representing the Sun … the artist expended as much bronze on it as seemed likely to create a dearth in the mines." - Philo of Byzantium

[@julianroybal4843]

I like how you go into detail really good video great job💯

[@Alex-mn1fb]

"The Hellenistic period is best characterized as a period where people dreamed big, but fell short, burned bright but faded quickly." So on point, for a period that gave birth to Alexander the Great, Demetrius the Besieger , Ptolemy, Cleopatra, and many other rulers, leaders, philosophers, poets and scientists that shaped the beginnings of our world today.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

A3TG paved the way for Christianity.

[@Alex-mn1fb]

@@chuckleezodiac24 Yes, absolutely. And in many ways also shaped Judaism as well, as it developed under, surrounded and in many ways opposed to Hellenism.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

@@Alex-mn1fb I was quoting lyrics from an Iron Maiden song. But, yeah, by uniting the East & West with a common language and the spread of Greek Culture, he changed the course of civilization. I haven't studied the effects on Judaism. Thanks for the reply.

[@Alex-mn1fb]

@@chuckleezodiac24 hahah oh sorry, I misread and misinterpreted your comment and I was waaay of. 😁 It still stands tho, Hellenistic culture had a huge influence on both Judaism and Christianity and did pay the way 😅

[@chuckleezodiac24]

@@Alex-mn1fb It's cool, bro. For a Heavy Metal band, they had some songs that were historically accurate!

[@ZephLodwick]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Colossus had a spear of a shield that it could rest on to stop itself from falling over--especially as it was a commemoration of a military victory.

[@hedgehog3180]

Well it wasn't really commemorating a military victory as much as it was a way to give thanks to a deity for a military victory. A spear also does seem unlikely unless it was posing with it since that would have added more weight. I think we can safely rule out a shield since the shape of a shield from the time would probably actually make it more unbalanced instead of providing support. It would probably have stood fairly straight up as that allows for the simplest transfer of weight down to the base and the pose where it's shielding it's eyes does seem likely however that obviously leaves one hand free. It could have had a spear in that however Helios wasn't a war god so it wouldn't make much sense to depict him as a spear and if instead he's meant to resemble the ideal of athletic beauty then it's probably very likely that he would have instead had a cape draped over his arm, that or they might have used a plant to provide support like a lot of other statues from the period did.

[@Eh-nj4qj]

The coins being similar to modern state coins with a vaguely similar purpose is so cool.

[@Legalize_Ranch]

Love the Rhodes piano in the background!

[@SabinStargem]

How a Christmas tradition was created: *Pointing at the statue* "Look at those giant berries, Gaius. Let us stand below them and kiss, Helios's virility may bless us with child."

[@Jobe-13]

If I was a nomadic adventurer in Greece around that time, visiting Rhodes to see the statue would be on my bucket list.

[@Jobe-13]

@@sebastiandiaconu1221 lol

[@CatChrist]

Not sure how I've never seen your videos before today. Easy sub 💜

[@CuriousWorldProductions]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Excellent.

[@wereshark6921]

Truly a blessing from lord basking shark

[@doommagic]

Don't you mean lord barn owl, good sir? Because I think you do.

[@wereshark6921]

@@doommagic ahh yes a good alternative

[@greenergrass4060]

Actually he's a Basking Owlosaurus

[@wereshark6921]

@@greenergrass4060 damn you're right

[@kenedi987]

Amazing video! If you ever make videos on the other wonders of the ancient world, I'd absolutely love them! I'm especially fascinated in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the truth on their existence, and a video covering them would be most amazing!

[@tomtricks6838]

yessss

[@daddad8707]

Excellent presentation, thanks.

[@colehenry151]

The Macintosh + reference @20:34 made my day

[@eccomi21]

Bronze with maybe a little bit of copper mixed in. I'm confused. The main ingredient of bronze IS copper.

[@november8039]

I'm thinking he meant mixed in as in constructed mostly of bronze with some pure copper components incorporated.

[@eccomi21]

@@november8039 I guessed so myself but like everyone else here I feel the need to point it out.

[@alexandermenzies9954]

Exactly. Later on the same misconception is repeated. Bronze is an alloy of mostly copper with some tin added.

[@yozza4978]

It is? Lol TIL

[@vogonp4287]

Ah yes, the floor here is made of floor.

[@marxtheenigma873]

"Killed himself after seeing an architectural imperfection." As an artist plagued with OCD and anxiety, I understand.

[@maosama3695]

No you don't.

[@Nameless2k6]

People back in the day genuinely believed in this type of drama

[@svenm2272]

@@maosama3695 ?

[@marxtheenigma873]

@@maosama3695 You underestimate my mental illness

[@BradWatsonMiami]

The Statue of Helios (Greek: the Sun) at Rhodes like the Statue of Liberty had 7 rays/ spikes pointing out of its head representing the '7 Sacred Luminaires'/'7 Classical Planets': Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars Jupiter, and Saturn. 4 of these can't be seen during the day/4 don't cast shadows on Earth. The ancients also observed the 4 primary lunar phases of roughly 7 (~7.4) days each, thus the 7-day week and 4 weeks in a 'moonth'. The lunar year + 7 day week + 4 days = solar year. Roman Calendar's 7 thirty-one day months + 4 thirty day months + February's 28 (7x4) days. Orion is 7 stars: 4 are his shoulders & feet + Orion's Belt. BIG Dipper & Little Dipper are 7 stars each with 4 in the bowl. The Pleaides/7 sisters is the 4th most recognizable asterism. Mars returns to the same point against the background stars and in relationship to the Sun and Earth every 47 years. GOD=7_4 Theory; see Seal #2 at 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could have produced that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/ Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 is part of Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

[@leecollins6344]

Stupendous program. Learned so much.

[@trudi1962]

Fabulous video. Thanks so much!

[@joewesterland5697]

God damn how does Vapour Wave manage to follow me arround everywhere...

[@kirkalbrecht9557]

That's literally what I was just thinking

[@Jobe-13]

Because it’s an awesome genre of music.

[@joewesterland5697]

@@Jobe-13 Hell yes please.

[@112048112048]

I'm pretty sure the Colossus of Rhodes was just an unusually large barn owl.

[@billblaski9523]

Hahaha, excellent

[@GreenEyeCatto]

Praise the Sun!

[@AGhostintheHouse]

I was kind of thinking the same thing.

[@cupajoe99]

was looking for this comment, lol

[@br0k3n_b0y2]

@@GreenEyeCatto Ashen one?

[@aaronpescasio]

man your channel is great

[@owojohnson1115]

Wonderful documentary

[@Evergreen_Wizard]

I have just imagined the Colossus standing in a JoJo pose over the city.

[@er.mrinalkantidas6949]

Well why not

[@Creed329]

Perfection

[@Raccon_Detective.]

plot twist the colossal of Rhodes is a colossal titan

[@incognitobandito244]

@@Raccon_Detective. ah yes, and the sculptor was Ymir.

[@wanderingdruid978]

Absolutely infuriating that the Colossus was smelted down and sold.

[@tsopmocful1958]

And it was probably more for religious reasons than for profit, as it may have been seen as a graven polytheist image or idol, which made it 'jahiliyyah' (from the time of ignorance before Islam). This is also what motivated the Taliban to destroy that huge Buddhist statue and ISIS to destroy Palmyra.

[@danielchequer5842]

@@tsopmocful1958 Islam was not the only one to do it. The Greeks themselves did it a lot in the middle ages to get metal to fabricate weapons, thus giving us the impression that the greek world was one of marble, but it seems this way bc they melted down most of their bronze stuff out of necessity. As Trey mentioned in the video, Lycinos worked "almost exclusively" on bronze. So the bizantines would probably melt the statue when desperate times were upon them.

[@Crab_Shanty]

That was the fate of a lot of artefacts, unfortunately.

[@Kyle-gw6qp]

@@tsopmocful1958 the world is arguably more ignorant after Islam.

[@nevio2658]

@@Kyle-gw6qp That's a pretty stupid thing to say. They saved thousands of books and translated them into Arabic. Without that we'd have much less ancient books.

[@falcodarkzz]

How atmospheric and transporting, lvoed this

[@search4mrmythos707]

What a fascinating history, thank you Trey

[@AmaterasuUlt]

No problem

[@batspidey7611]

I remember the Colossus of Rhodes. It was a boss fight in God of War 2.

[@faztznya5207]

No, we face the 1 real in that game, it's another dude

[@gustavodeoliveira5254]

@@faztznya5207 ora ora ora, parece que encontrei um camarada compatriota aqui, tudo certo meu bom?

[@faztznya5207]

@@gustavodeoliveira5254 maseclaro

[@jozefpisudski6952]

@@gustavodeoliveira5254 Olá, confrades brasileiros com cultura e sede por conhecimento.

[@timothymoore8549]

I missed you do you know how hard it is to find KZbinrs that cover paleontology biblical mythos and obscure history.

[@timothymoore8549]

Thank you?

[@williamharbuck8575]

@@timothymoore8549 dude his p carries weight!! Hahaha can’t believe I typed that

[@gepflegtePCSpieleKultur]

Brilliant!, much obliged... Cheers...

[@calvingrondahl1011]

I still have my VHS tapes of The Seven Wonders by John Romer. You go into more detail. Thanks Trey. I like your dinosaur, I volunteer at a Dinosaur museum here in Utah.

[@purplehaze2358]

The comparison between Jesus and Alexander the Great is even more accurate when you consider Alexander was considered a child of the gods by the Ancient Greek people.

[@jesusmora9379]

Alexander tried to unite all the nations into one humanity.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Except that Alexander probably died of complications due to syphilis, and Jesus died of complications due to crucifixion. Also, Alexander conquered by the sword, while Jesus conquered by the word.

[@jmaraf7741]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc I find it interesting also that both Jesus and Alexander died of nearly the same age.

[@jaojao1768]

Good point

[@john.harrison]

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc did jesus succeed without the sword tho? He did not have (relatively) that many followers at his death. And if you credit him with what christians did after to spread the faith you can't just keep the nice parts you like He would get credit for the gunpoint conventions to.

[@nathanl8622]

There's something kind of funny to me about a statue of Helios posed so that he's desperately trying to keep his own sun out of his eyes.

[@butterskywalker8785]

kinda like how in cartoons suns are depicted to wear sunglasses,for some reasons

[@BorrieBeats]

Might be the reason why the creator possibly killed himself

[@alexcantin2246]

That oracle really screwed the planet out of one of it’s most notable artistic achievements…

[@matzanrock]

loved it, thanks

[@Beginus1997]

Moral of the story- don't build world wonders near geologically active regions

[@krashd]

In those days they still believed that natural disasters were acts of displeasure from the gods so by building the biggest fuckoff statue of Helios the world had ever seen they likely also thought he would keep them safe from such events. Boy were they in for a surprise.

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

Aw yee

[@rexnatura]

O_O I'm subbed to you.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@@rexnatura Alternate History Hub and Trey the Explainer did a collab. *[Conquistadors vs Terror Birds intensifies]*

[@jaroddrake1]

If no one is gonna say it I will. I ship you two

[@zachfreeman2502]

Hi again Cody, I still love you.

[@IVIRnathanreilly]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim your username could actually the title of the crossover too.

[@tesmith47]

hey, this was very good worth the wait

[@ha7197]

Viewed this on my lunch break and it was worth it....thank you!

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

My favorite explanation of where it went is from God of war 2, where Kratos fought it in a boss fight

[@just_a_guy9688]

Hmm, interesting pfp...

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Release the Kratos!

[@sipioc]

6:11 “Thats not a dude. You’re a dude. This is a God.”

[@Kaulos7gt]

this channel is pure gold!!!