Colossus

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

As long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world.

He is a true colossus.

He was a colossus with feet of clay.

Experts say the colossus almost certainly depicts King Psamtik I, who ruled Egypt between 664 and 610 B.C.

The United States is a colossus with feet of clay.

Oh Troy! Oh my homeland! Oh hallowed refuge! / Walls inhabited by heroes! Walls built by the gods! / Four times, as it nears entry, the odious colossus / halts; four times, the clash of arms is heard.

["]The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. […] Why, they don't even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.["]

What I love about the colossi is that they actually feel colossal : they move ponderously around, sending out tremours with each step; their ancient husks richly detailed with dirt and plant life.

The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, [John Maynard] Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.