Background
The statue was built to commemorate Rhodes" victory over the invading Macedonians in 305 British Columbia, led by Demetrius I, son of Antigonus, a general under Alexander the Great.
The statue was built to commemorate Rhodes" victory over the invading Macedonians in 305 British Columbia, led by Demetrius I, son of Antigonus, a general under Alexander the Great.
He was a pupil of Lysippos. Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 British Columbia, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and also the patron god of Rhodes. Also attributed to Chares was a colossal head which was brought to Rome and dedicated by P. Lentulus Spinther on the Capitoline Hill, in 57 British Columbia (Pliny, Natural History XXXIV18).
lieutenant is believed that Chares did not live to see his project finished.
There are several legends stating that he committed suicide. In one tale he had almost finished the statue when someone pointed out a small flaw in the construction.
The sculptor was so ashamed of it he killed himself. In another version, the Rhodians asked Chares how much he would charge for a statue fifty feet high, and when he answered, asked him how much for a statue twice as big.
He answered twice as much - and they awarded the contract.
He had overlooked that doubling the height would mean an eightfold increase in the amount of materials needed. This drove him to bankruptcy and eventually suicide. The work may have been completed by Laches, also an inhabitant of Lindos.
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.