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The colossus of stems.
Properties and dimensions of the color. The study of
the color is often confused for the art students because they are not able to
distinguish the limits of his specific assignment. The physicists are interested
in the light phenomenon, the mixture of chromatic lights, the classification of
the color through the understanding of the frequencies and wavelengths of rays.
He is important because its city, of the same name, is the capital of the
Dodecaneso, archipelago made up of a twenty of islands. The geographic situation
of Stems is privileged to deal with Greece, Asia Smaller and even Egypt, and
thanks to that have become the more important commercial center of the Eastern
Mediterranean. For that reason he is not stranger who some power of the time
seeks to seize of Stems and tries to take it, like Macedonian. His king,
Demetrium I Poliorcetes, are known by his experience in the military art, mainly
in the sieges, as much, that in future the military will talk about the
technique to besiege strengths like "Poliorcetes". Demetrium attacks, then,
Stems. Nevertheless, the city resists the attacks of this frightful soldier, who
finally march with the tail between the legs.
The city has resisted. In order to celebrate this triumph,
the city decides to elevate a memorable monument to Helium, God of the sun, in
the port. It directs the works Cares de Lindos, disciple of Lisipo. The statue
is growing, the first frame of iron and on him the bronze plates. Finally, when
the statue is finished measures nothing less than 32 meters of height. Its fame
will attract travelers worldwide old to see it. With the Colossus they got to be
the five wonders of the world that were raised on the Earth face, number that
was not surpassed but that it was decreasing. Fifty and six years after its
construction, in the 223 to of C., an earthquake it demolished to the Colossus.
The inhabitants of Stems, following the advice of oracle, decided to let lie
their rest where they fell. And thus he was, during near nine hundred years,
until in the 654 d. of C. the Muslims seized of the bronze like booty in an
incursion. The legend of the Colossus tended, how no, to enlarge its
proportions. During the Renaissance the Colossus "was discovered" by the
humanists, like the rest of the Greek art, and its his monumentality was
remarked being made circulate that so large it was so that the boats happened
between their doors. But the Colossus does not need mystification: it will have
to pass the friolera of two thousand years until the man makes another colossal
statue that surpasses it, which says everything to it.
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