The Colossus of Rhodes
The Ancients
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Sextus Empiricus's Suicidal Thoughts
Sculptor or architect arranged a contract to build it at a certain height. Then the rhodian said, no, we want it bigger than that. And so he said, well, I can do it twice the height, but it'll cost you twice as much. So they said, fine. But he realized, as he was working on it, that he made a mistake in that to build something twice the height uses, you know, eight times as much plastic. He hadn't factored this in where he made this deal and so he realized he was going bankrupt. According to Sextus Empiricus, according to another brief poem, which attributes the sculpture to
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