The idea of the Seven Wonders of the World is well known, but how many of us could name them all? Why seven? There were plenty of additional candidates in the world of antiquity. And did they even exist? Some we can be sure of: the Pharos at Alexandria survived into the Middle Ages, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist only in a few references by ancient authors, and the Colossus of Rhodes is 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.
Title: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Author: Edited by Peter Clayton & Martin Price
Publisher: This edition was published by Dorset Press, a division of Marboro Books Corporation, by arrangement with Routledge 1989 Dorset Press
Publication Date: 1989
Printed: Printed in the United States of America
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN 0-88029-393-4
Measures approximately: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches (21.5 x 14.5 cm.)
Condition of the book: Please see the images.
Interests: Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, Pharos at Alexandria, Archeology, History
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