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Headword:
Kolassaeis
Adler number: kappa,1932
Translated headword: Kolassaians, Colassaeans
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A name for] the Rhodians, who erected on the island a bronze statue of the sun, which because of its size they called Kolossos,[1] in the reign of
Seleukos son of Nikanor,[2] successor of Alexander of Macedon [ = Alexander the Great].[3]
In
Epigrams:[4] "for you yourself the habitants of Dorian Rhodos did stretch out this Kolossos towards Olympos [
Myth,
Place,
Place], o Sun, a bronze one, when having laid to sleep the wave of Enyo[5] they garlanded the fatherland with the spoils of their ill-wishers".[6]
Kolassaeis: hoi Rhodioi: hoi tines anestêsan en têi nêsôi chalkoun andrianta tou hêliou, hon dia to megethos ekalesan Kolosson, epi Seleukou tou Nikanoros huiou, diadochou Alexandrou tou Makedonos. en Epigrammasi: autôi soi pros Olumpon emakunanto Kolosson tonde Rhodou naetai Dôridos, Aelie, chalkeon, hênika kuma kateunasantes Enuous estepsan patran dusmeneôn enarois.
Notes:
See also
kappa 1931.
[1] In latinized spelling Colossus.
[2]
Seleukos I Nikator, king of Asia:
sigma 202.
[3] This first paragraph of the entry is abridged from George the Monk,
Chronicon 285.15-22.
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.171.1–4 (author unknown), on the Colossus of
Rhodes; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (213) and vol. II (588-590).
[5] The goddess of war and companion of Ares (
epsilon 1502).
[6] Demetrios I Poliorketes besieged
Rhodes for over a year (305-304 BCE), but the Rhodians survived and commemorated their success with this statue by
Chares of
Lindos; cf. Gow and Page, vol. II (589-590).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: art history; Christianity; chronology; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; mythology; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 3 August 2002@06:03:19.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (added keywords) on 3 August 2002@09:59:13.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 3 August 2002@10:02:23.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 4 August 2002@04:45:43.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 7 March 2013@03:27:19.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 8 November 2014@01:25:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 3 October 2019@00:50:00.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added bibliography; augmented n.6) on 25 July 2022@14:02:00.
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