Seven Wonders Ancient WorldPeter A. Clayton, Martin J. Price First published in 1988. Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Did they even exist? The Pharos at Alexandria survived into the Middle Ages, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist only in references by ancient authors and the Colossus of Rhodes if too improbable to have existed in the form and place traditionally ascribed to it. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World sets the record straight, with an attractive account of each Wonder in the context in which it was built. The authors combine ancient sources with the results of modern scholarship and excavations to recreate a vivid picture of the Seven Wonders. All experts in their specialist fields, the contributors bring together facts and background that are remarkably difficult to find from any other single source and establish for the fist time the archaeology and location of each Wonder. |
Contents
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA | |
THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON | |
THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA | |
THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESOS | |
THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS | |
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Alexander Alexandria altar court Amazons amongst ancient world antiquity architect architectural Artemis at Ephesos Artemisia Athens Babylon base Berossus blocks Bodrum British Museum bronze built burial chamber century BC chariot group Cheops civilisation classical coins colonnade Colossus of Rhodes columns cubits cult image cuneiform Dahshur decorated Dynasty east Egypt Egyptian entrance Ephesians Ephesos Erlach evidence excavations façade famous feet Figure fragments frieze Gardens of Babylon Giza goddess Greek Gregory Nazianzus Gregory Tours Halicarnassus Hanging Gardens harbour Heemskerck's height Helios Herodotus Imam's field island king known later lighthouse marble Mausoleum Maussollos metres monuments Nebuchadnezzar Old Kingdom Olympia palace Panaenus Pausanias pediment Persian Pharos Pheidias Philo Pliny podium Ptolemy pyramid reconstruction relief representation Roman Rome roof royal sanctuary sarcophagus sculptures seen Seven Wonders showing sides statue of Zeus stone Strabo structure survived Swan Hellenic temple of Artemis throne tomb wall Zeus at Olympia ziggurrat