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Chares of Lindos

Greek sculptor

Field	Value
name	Chares of Lindos
image	Colosse_de_Rhodes_(Barclay).jpg
image_size	200
caption	19th-century artistic impression of the Colossus of Rhodes, created by Chares of Lindos
birth_date	before 305 BC
birth_place	Lindos, Greece
death_date	c. 280 BC
death_place	Rhodes, Greece
years_active	?-c.280 BC
notable_works	Colossus of Rhodes
occupation	sculptor

Chares of Lindos (; , gen.: Χάρητος; before 305 BC – c.280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and the patron god of Rhodes. 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).

The Colossus of Rhodes is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and was considered Chares's greatest accomplishment, until its destruction in an earthquake in 226 BC.

The work may have been completed by Laches, also an inhabitant of Lindos.{{cite web

In popular culture

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. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 November 2017 (M.P.C. 107121).
Chares, called by the Italian version of his name (Carete), appears in the 1961 film The Colossus of Rhodes, portrayed by Félix Fernández.

References

[[Sextus Empiricus]], ''Against the Logicians'' 1.107-8; a much later work by a philosopher, not a historian.

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