The Now Understandable Podcast: Myths About the Colossus of Rhodes and Aristotle's Eight-Legged Fly

Many artists at different times depicted the Colossus of Rhodes - a statue of the Greek sun god Helios - towering over the harbor, so huge and with their legs so wide apart, as if they could swim between them ships. That's just a myth. Just like the fact that once Aristotle counted eight legs in a fly (we both know that there are six of them!) And wrote about this in one of his works. Why these stories are firmly entrenched in the minds of people, we will tell in the new episode of the podcast "Now I understand."

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