192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: THE SEVEN WONDERS; Chapter 1 THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA, PETER A. CLAYTON; Chapter 2 THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON, IRVING L. FINKEL; Chapter 3 THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA, MARTIN J. PRICE; Chapter 4 THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESOS, BLUMA L. TRELL; Chapter 5 THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS, GEOFFREY B. WAYWELL; Chapter 6 THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES, REYNOLD HIGGINS; Chapter 7 THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA, PETER A. CLAYTON ;EPILOGUE: SOME FORGOTTEN WONDERS; APPENDIX; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
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Peter A. Clayton, Martin J. Price
