This line of inclosure
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (983 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072XPW3TR |
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| Number of Pages | : | 463 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After the reign of Alexander, it became the seat of a famousschool of sculpture and painting, from which issued Protogenes and theauthors of the _Laocoon_ and the _Farnese Bull_. The town containedthree thousand statues,465 and a hundred and six colossi, among othersthe famous Statue of the Sun, one of the seven wonders of the world, ahundred and five feet high, the cost of which had been three thousandtalents (17,400,000 francs £696,000).466 The school of rhetoric atRhodes was frequented by students who repaired thither from all partsof Greece, and Cæsar, as well as Cicero, went there to perfectthemselves in the art of oratory.. The celebrity of Rhodes was no less great in arts and letters than incommerce