Location of the Colossus (in red near the center) in a map of Rome
The Colossus of Nero (Colossus Neronis) was a 30-metre (98 ft) bronze statue that the Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea, the imperial villa complex which spanned a large area from the north side of the Palatine Hill, across the Velian ridge to the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was modified by Nero's successors into a statue of the sun god Sol. The statue was eventually moved to a spot outside the Flavian Amphitheatre, which (according to one of the more popular theories) became known, by its proximity to the Colossus, as the Colosseum.
The last mention of the Colossus is in an illuminated manuscript from the late 4th century AD. The statue disappeared sometime afterwards, likely toppled by an earthquake or destroyed during the Sack of Rome, although some sources indicate the statue may have remained standing as late as the 7th century AD. Today, the only remnants of the statue are some concrete blocks that once made up the foundation of its marble pedestal.
The ColossusofNero (Colossus Neronis) was a 30-metre (98 ft) bronze statue that the Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea...
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via Google Books. Albertson, Fred C. (2001). "Zenodorus's "ColossusofNero"". Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. 46: 95–118. doi:10.2307/4238781...
statue of himself, the ColossusofNero, sited more or less where the Colosseum would eventually be built. Suetonius and Cassius Dio claim that Nero sang...
which could be flooded at will, with the ColossusofNero beside it. The Baths of Trajan, and the Temple of Venus and Roma were also built on the site...
presented himself as the fountainhead of the Empire, Roman life, and religion. He also had the head of the ColossusofNero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced...
have suggested the statue reuses parts of a much earlier ColossusofNero, although probably not the colossus erected at the Flavian amphitheatre, perhaps...
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of Nero, though far smaller than the 30-metre-high ColossusofNero in Rome, now lost. The Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker, a successful freedman (c. 50–20...
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The Baths ofNero (Thermae Neronis) or Baths of Alexander (Thermae Alexandrinae) were a complex of ancient Roman baths on the Campus Martius in Rome, built...
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The Colossusof Constantine (Italian: Statua Colossale di Costantino I) was a many times life-size acrolithic early-4th-century statue depicting the Roman...
of Nero, though far smaller than the 30-metre-high ColossusofNero in Rome, now lost. The Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker, a successful freedman (c. 50-20...
ancient Greek mathematician Zenodorus (sculptor) [fr], builder of the ColossusofNero in Rome This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
built under Nero's orders in the images of Apollo and himself. Nero uses the statue to invade Camp Half-Blood in The Hidden Oracle. The Colossus proceeds...
The so-called Circus ofNero or Circus of Caligula was a circus in ancient Rome, located mostly in the present-day Vatican City. It was first built under...
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the 1963 Lambretta catalogue. Nusciak died of an incurable disease in her hometown of Trieste in 2006. Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) – Amazzone Sanremo...
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