Plan To Rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes
>A 500-foot bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, towering over the entryway to a port.
>A collective of European architects has proposed to build a 21st-century version of the Colossus of Rhodes, the ancient Greek statue erected on the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century B.C. The new statue would stand 500-feet tall and serve as a cultural center as well as a lighthouse.
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Would this annoy you, Veeky Forums?
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Yes because I would be indirectly paying for that, being a citizen of the EU
looks tacky as fuck, also pay denbts greekroach
>a 21st-century version
Oh god, please no.
Why not the Statue of Zeus or that other temple that THAT GUY burned down? Nobody cares for other five wonders or what?
Yes because Greeks have better things to do than try and reclaim lost glory with a gaudy statue
I think they just want tourism. It's annoying because the original was only 100 ft tall and didn't span the entrance.
The 21st century version will be a transgender minority since "White people didnt exist back then"
>Oh god, please no.
> The Colossus of Rhodes giving its name to the Colosseum
W-What?
It looks like a gaudy eye sore. And the location+pose make it even worse.
NEW
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This.
The default colossus
I'm pretty hyped.
>EU won't let it be built until greeks pay denbts
>greece looks abroad for funding
>Finland offers to pay for it
>on one condition
>they get to build everything from the legs up
>greeks build giant muscular bronze legs
>Finns take over
>top it off with a gondola head
Greeks just want the EU to pay for a tourist trap in hopes the income from it will allow them to pay off their debts without having to give up their lazy lifestyle.
If the real thing looks anything like that then it will be absolute shit and a waste of money.
Is that a fucking restaurant at the top?
This is fucking obscene, if this gets built I will personally suicide bomb it in the name of European dignity, or what's left of it.
colossos was a word in ancient greek meaning "statue, puppet". only through THE colossus it attained the meaning of something huge. so you could say that the colosseum, not being a statue but just being huge, gained the name from the ancient world wonder.
That's the bull Europa you stupid faggot
Do you see seven heads? Seven horns? Also,
>thinking Revelation is a prophecy and not referring to long bygone events
Not gonna lie, it looks pretty sweet desu
I only see one head and two horns, and no names of blasphemy. It's not even scarlet.
I don't like the design and it's too big. Other than that, go ahead. Europeans need to start caring about their heritage.
They've been saying this for decades and have yet to do shit.
what would be the point of that? the world wonders are amazing because they were built back in times when that sort of effort was nearly impossible
sure you could build a colossus nowadays but it'd just be a big gaudy statue same with a modern day pyramid being a big pile of rocks
I'm for it as long as you can see a penis when you look up from sailing directly under it. Otherwise, it's just inauthentic.
A woman riding a beast is a woman riding a beast.
The statue of Nero that was towering over his Domus Aurea was an inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, after Nero's reign the statue was placed in front the new Colosseum that was built upon the place where the artificial lake of Nero's palace was located, after Nero was forgotten the statue which was simply called "Colossus" gave the great arena its name: Colosseum
As long as its classical style then go for it, that would be great.
>sail into port to trade my olives for sheep skins
>look up
>see a 20 foot ballbag dangling 5 stories above my head
>mfw
Oh shit nigger, better call the fucking cops, we've got an antichrist on our hands
Call me when they start putting statues of that in front of government buildings.
Not as much as all the people that would be posting on my social media feed about this big asshole
money well spent
It's not though. Look at his haircut he looks like a movie star from the 80s
A massive waste of time and money for an aesthetically terrible structure that doesn't serve any purpose and doesn't even fit in the surroundings.
The statue wasn't standing with his legs open damnit. He was standing on a single island
Their main desire is to imitate for pleb interest, but there seem to be a few depictions of the Colossus straddle-legged.
The pic on the right I could definitely go with that. Too "fashy" for contemporary sensibilities perhaps? That one on the OP though, is a pleb tier, normie tier, dumb nouveau riche tourist abomination.
That looks really bad to be honest
>greece sinking in debts
>lol let's throw our money away
Truly scum
I prefer the old classic version.
Also I'm pretty sure the idea of having the two legs across the water is bad because everybody passing under it would look under his toga just to see if ancient greeks are like scotsmen under.
>covering up the dong
Muslim refugees will knock it over and then some jewish company will sell the bronze as scrap.
>Before its destruction in the earthquake of 226 BC, the Colossus of Rhodes stood over 30 metres (98 feet) high,[2] making it one of the tallest statues of the ancient world.[3]
smaller than the statue of liberty
> statue of liberty
I think it's great, nobody builds anything worth preserving today, future historians will look back and think what the fuck is all this shit?
But libertine is pure copper alloy
I'd hope future historians would realize impressive looking buildings are just used to display wealth/power and to give the plebs something to stare at.
Or they could be retarded like you.
>pajeet actually thinks this makes him look cool
This desu let the fucking lazy shits pay it themselves.
Oh shit, I guess Babelfish is part of the conspiracy too.
>US statue is the Statue of Liberty
>shithole socialist countries statue is called the Statue of Unity
like pottery
>Indians and Chinese overcompensating this hard
Russian one is the best looking.
Indian one is horrendous.
Disappointed that most of the height of the statue of liberty is the base.
Surely it isn't right to include the base anyway?
That would mean a small statue on a large building would be the tallest statue in the world.
i am greek currently residing in an island no to far from Rhodes and i think that its a horrible marketing tourist-tier idea to built a new colossus even if merkel offers to pay for it with her own fuckin credit card.enough with the bad taste in modern world.ruins and monuments of the past which doesn't exst anymore should only be regarded as a historical subject and nothing more
What a gaudy piece of colossal trash
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