Popular Culture
In 1656, William Davenant, an Elizabethan and Restoration actor and producer, wrote the first English opera, The Seige of Rhodes, based on the incident. The set was designed by John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, an important designer of theatre masques for the Jacobean and Caroline courts.
L. Sprague de Camp used the siege and the building of the Colossus in one of his historical novels, The Bronze God of Rhodes.
Alfred Duggan's novel on the life of Demetrius, Elephants and Castles, also covers the siege.
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