In 280 BC, the people of Rhodes, a Greek city on an island of the same name, finished 12 years of construction on a 108-foot-tall statue of Helios, the Greek god of the sun. One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes loomed over the harbor as the tallest statue on earth. What awe, and perhaps fear, it must have inspired from the sailors who passed under its humbling majesty in their relatively tiny vessels.
Philadelphia has no plans to build a 108-foot-tall statue of Bryce Harper.
