The Bronze God of Rhodes

The Bronze God of Rhodes

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name = The Bronze God of Rhodes
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration of "The Bronze God of Rhodes"
author = L. Sprague deCamp
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cover_artist = Alice Smith
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Historical novel
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1960
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 406 pp
isbn = NA
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"The Bronze God of Rhodes" is an historical novel by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1960, and in paperback by Bantam Books in 1963. It is the second of his historical novels in order of writing, and fourth chronologically.

The novel is written in first person, purporting to be the memoirs of Chares of Lindos, the sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes, and concerns his return to Rhodes, his attempts to set up as a sculptor, his struggles with his family's wishes that he enter their bronze foundry, his experience as a catapult artilleryman during the Siege of Rhodes, and his complicated and somewhat hilarious adventures in Ptolemaic Egypt.

References

*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=29 | date=1983


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