Colossus
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A colossus is a statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It can also refer to any man or beast of gigantic size.
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Namesakes
- Colossus (Goya)
- Clive Barker's play Colossus.
- Giorgio de Chirico's Shadow of the Colossus
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
- The New Colossus (1883)
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