The Bronze God of Rhodes
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| The Bronze God of Rhodes | |
 Dust-jacket illustration of The Bronze God of Rhodes |
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| Author | L. Sprague deCamp |
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| Cover artist | Alice Smith |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1960 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 406 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
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.
[edit] References
- Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 29.
| Preceded by An Elephant for Aristotle |
Historical novels of L. Sprague de Camp The Bronze God of Rhodes |
Succeeded by The Golden Wind |
