Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Colossus of Rhodes

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Imagine you're an ancient traveler, visiting Rhodes for the first time in 280 BCE. As you approach the famed city, a singular object dominates the horizon: a huge statue of the Greek sun god Helios, popularly known as the "Colossus of Rhodes." In the fourth part of this series on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Ben, Noel and Max explore how this titanic sculpture came to be -- and how its phenomenal legacy still remains with us in the modern day.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous historians.
0:29.7	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:33.0	Let's hear it for a wonder of the modern podcasting world, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:40.0	Who do we have joining us here?
0:43.1	None other than the man, the myth, the legend.
0:47.0	A wonder old is own.
0:48.6	It's Mr. Noel Brown.
0:50.9	It is I.
0:52.1	Thank you very much.
0:53.4	Not much of a colossus. More of a, what's the opposite of a colossus? A pygmy? Oh, no. Come on. Man, that's charged. You're a Titan. Thank you, buddy. I remember those guys. Yeah. You're welcome, Buckaroo. My name is From that movie, Clash of the Titans?
1:11.6	Remember the Titans.
1:13.2	Remember the Titans?
1:14.5	Yeah, that's a football movie with...
1:16.3	Remember the Clash.
1:17.8	Don...
1:18.1	What's that guy's name?
1:19.6	Denzel Washington, the rag-tag football kind of creep.
1:23.3	Who says he no longer watches films?
1:25.7	By the way, my name is Ben Bolin.
1:28.6	We are going to talk about a continuing series.
1:34.2	Way back in the days of yore, by which means several years ago,
1:39.2	we got together in one of our pitch meetings,
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