Qualla: Kouros of Apollonas https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/5/kouros-of-apollonas-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kouros of Apollonas https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas Kouros of Apollonas: Introduction https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas/ Photo credit Akerbeltz, CC BY-SA 3.0. He is enormous, and he is unfinished, and he has been lying on his back in the same hillside quarry for roughly 2,500 years. The Kouros of Apollonas stretches 10.7 metres of light grey Naxian marble across a 30-degree slope above the village of Apollonas, in the north of the island. The sculptors cut him free on three sides, roughed out a bearded head, blocked the arms into rectangles, began the feet on a low plinth - and then walked away. An estimated 80 tonnes of stone, half-emerged from the ground, was simply left where it lay.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/5/kouros-of-apollonas-wp/swd5-kouros-of-apollonas-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kouros of Apollonas: The Giant in the Ground https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk up the unpaved road above Apollonas and you come upon him suddenly: a colossal figure lying on a north-south axis, his front roughly carved, his back still fused to the bedrock. The body, the head with its beard and ears, the first suggestion of hair - all are recognizable i...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/5/kouros-of-apollonas-wp/swd5-kouros-of-apollonas-the-giant-in-the-ground.mp3 0:06 2 full Kouros of Apollonas: How a Statue Was Born https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. The quarry around him is one of the oldest in Greece, a surface quarry where stone was cut straight from the hillside rather than mined from shafts. The marks of the work are everywhere. Sculptors struck the marble with bronze chisels, pickaxes and hammers, leaving a field of sma...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/5/kouros-of-apollonas-wp/swd5-kouros-of-apollonas-how-a-statue-was-born.mp3 0:06 3 full Kouros of Apollonas: Why He Never Rose https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. On his back are clues to an ambition that outran the means to fulfill it. Keyholes five to eight centimetres wide run in pairs across the stone, and a rectangular slot forty centimetres across waited for a wooden lifting beam - the standard rigging points for moving a Greek monol...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/5/kouros-of-apollonas-wp/swd5-kouros-of-apollonas-why-he-never-rose.mp3 0:06 4 full Kouros of Apollonas: Apollo, Dionysos, or Neither https://qualla.com/kouros-of-apollonas/ Photo credit Olaf Tausch, CC BY 3.0. His name is a long argument. Because he lies near the town of Apollonas and its old sanctuary of Apollo, a fifteenth-century visitor called him a 'statue of Apollo,' and the scholar Ludwig Ross repeated it in 1840. The name stuck for a century. Then in 1932 Wilhelm von Massow loo...

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