What greek landmark is similar to the statue of liberty?

Answer 1

Colossus of Rhodes also came to my mind--one enormous statue in a port.

But then I thought: Statue of Athena in the Parthenon--a symbol of the leading democracy of its age.

I'm trying to think of a big monument in Greece that was a gift from another major power, but I can't come up with one.

Answer 2

American Park Network says :

"The Statue of Liberty would be patterned after the goddess, Libertas, the Roman personification of freedom."
http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/content.asp?catid=85&contenttypeid=35

Wikipedia says :

"A modern, and purely symbolic, representation of the deity [Libertas], is the famous Statue of Liberty (Enlightening the World)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertas

Wikipedia goes on : "It would be patterned after the Roman goddess Libertas, modified to resemble a robed Egyptian peasant, a fallaha, with light beaming out from both a headband and a torch thrust dramatically upward into the skies."

The *scale* of the statue was inspired by the Suez Canal, the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty#History

The original plan was to put her as a lighthouse at the entrance of the Suez Canal, but the the Egyptians weren't interested.

Marina Warner in her book "Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form" says :"The maquettes of this project, ''Egypt Bringing Light to Asia,'' were directly inspired by the ancient Pharos of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World."

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/liberty.htm

Warner, Marina, "Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form", New York : Atheneum, 1985. ISBN 0-689-11645-4.

Conclusion : the Egyptian maquette was inspired by the Pharos of Alexandria, the French/American one was inspired by the Roman godess Libertas.

Answer 3

The Demis Roussos Column ?

Answer 4

It was the Colossus of Rhodes.