CHARES, of Lindus in Rhodes, a sculptor pupil of Lysippus, who fashioned for the Rhodians a colossal bronze statue of the sun-god, the cost of which was defrayed by selling the warlike engines left by Demetrius Poliorcetes after the siege in 303 B.C. (Pliny, Nat. Hist. _cxxiv. 41). The colossus was seventy cubits (Io5ft.) in height. The notion that it bestrode the harbour is absurd. It was thrown down by an earthquake after 56 years.