(Colossus Solis). C. 40 m high, bronze portrait statue of Nero in Rome (Plin. HN 34,45; Suet. Nero 31; Mart. epigr. 2), conceived as a counterpart to his 120 foot high portrait on canvas in the horti Maiani (Plin. HN 35,51), near the vestibulum of the domus aurea . The commissioned artist was Zenodorus; Pliny visited his workshop and saw a clay model of the Colossus Neronis (HN 34,46). After the damnatio memoriae of Nero, the colossus was transformed into a statue of Sol (Plin. HN 34,45; Suet. Vesp. 18); according to another tradition, it was sai…
Colossus Neronis(260 words)
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Förtsch, Reinhard (Cologne), “Colossus Neronis”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e303120>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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