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The term colossus is a qualifying adjective that is used to normally designate a characteristic physical that makes a fictional person or character considerably bigger or stronger than the others. It is more common to find this adjective in the literature fiction since colossi were those characters that had an inhumanly larger size, already leaving the normal parameters, for which they were always beings to fear for the force and the power they possessed.

As said, the adjective colossus is an adjective that is often applied to certain mythical characters who represented enormous physical sizes. However, the term can also be used metaphorically to refer to the qualities or virtues of certain people as long as those virtues exceed the common of the rest of the people. For example, it is normal to say that a person is a colossus in the area that he performs and this does not mean that he is gigantic in physical terms if not gigantic in terms of ability, skills, success or ease of make your

homework. In this sense, the term colossus always has a connotation positive since the possibilities or abilities of the person referred to are highly valued.

In the world of art, the term colossus is the one used to designate those statues that are made at a scale much larger than that of the human being and that therefore they have a much larger size than what a human would normally have. Thus, there are several famous statues that are known as colossi and that in many cases are gigantic, reaching monumental dimensions. Without a doubt, the famous Colossus of Rhodes is one of the most famous although today it is not standing when it was demolished by a earthquake in the year 266 a. C. However, all the documents and records of the time place it as one of the most fabulous statues of the Antiquity, located on the island of Rhodes (Greece) and considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World old.

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