Doe Statue

This guide to the Doe Statue at Rhodes's old harbor entrance opens with the Colossus of Rhodes and the famous engraved image of it straddling the harbor mouth, then questions whether that pose was ever physically possible. It follows the giant's fall in an earthquake around 226 BCE and its long afterlife lying broken on the ground before being sold off for scrap. From there it turns to the stag and doe statues that stand here now, and to Rhodes's old nickname, deer island.