Colossus of Nero

The Colossus of Nero (Latin Colossus Neronis ) was a large bronze statue of the Roman emperor, which he had erected in the entrance hall of his huge palace, the Domus Aurea in Rome. It should have been 119 or 120 feet high ( about 35 meters), built by the sculptor and bronze caster Zenodorus. The model was of approximately the same size, in the Hellenistic period around 290 BC and finished counting of the Seven Wonders of the World Colossus of Rhodes with a height of 32-36 meters.

After the death of Nero in the year 68, the statue was because the imperial successor Nero tried to distance themselves from him, converted to the sun god Sol and, while Hadrian, including allegedly 24 elephants were needed. She stood from then on the square in front of the large amphitheater built there instead of part of the Domus Aurea, the Flavian emperors. Probably derived from this colossus later designation Coliseum Flavian Amphitheatre for from.

Commodus was the colossus into a statue of Hercules, presented with Commodus ' facial features, convert. It was designed again as the sun god after his death. The time of its destruction is unknown. The massive base of the statue, a square of eight -meter sides was to see in the mid- 1930s. Benito Mussolini let him pay off in 1936 because it was the system via dell'Impero through the Arch of Constantine in the way. The place at which it was at the base, is marked by a square lawn in the pavement next to the Coliseum.