Chares of Lindos
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Otherpeople5 Template:Infobox person Chares of Lindos (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx, gen.: Χάρητος; before 305 BC – c.280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos.<ref name="nytimes" /> Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and the patron god of Rhodes.<ref name="rhodos-travel" /> The statue was built to commemorate Rhodes' victory over the invading Macedonians in 305 BC, led by Demetrius I, son of Antigonus, a general under Alexander the Great. Also attributed to Chares was a colossal head that was brought to Rome and dedicated by P. Lentulus Spinther on the Capitoline Hill in 57 BC (Pliny, Natural History XXXIV.18).<ref name="ancientlibrary" />
The Colossus of Rhodes is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,<ref name="unmuseum" /> and was considered Chares's greatest accomplishment, until its destruction in an earthquake in 226 BC.<ref name="corrosion-doctors" />
The work may have been completed by Laches, also an inhabitant of Lindos.<ref>Sextus Empiricus, Against the Logicians 1.107-8; a much later work by a philosopher, not a historian.</ref> <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In popular cultureEdit
- L. Sprague de Camp's novel The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as Chares' memoirs of the Siege of Rhodes and the building of the Colossus of Rhodes.
- Asteroid 236746 Chareslindos, discovered by Vincenzo Casulli in 2007, was named after the ancient Greek sculptor.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official Template:MoMP was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 November 2017 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
- Chares, called by the Italian version of his name (Carete), appears in the 1961 film The Colossus of Rhodes, portrayed by Félix Fernández.