The Seven Wonders of the Ancient WorldPsychology Press, 1988 - 178 páginas 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. |
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... 124 Reynold Higgins 7 THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA 138 Peter A. Clayton EPILOGUE : SOME FORGOTTEN WONDERS 158 APPENDIX 169 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 171 INDEX 175 ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Map showing the locations of the Seven Wonders 111.
... 124 Reynold Higgins 7 THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA 138 Peter A. Clayton EPILOGUE : SOME FORGOTTEN WONDERS 158 APPENDIX 169 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 171 INDEX 175 ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Map showing the locations of the Seven Wonders 111.
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Peter A. Clayton, Martin Price. ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Map showing the locations of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 2,3 Maerten van Heemskerck's fanciful sixteenth- century representation of the pyramids of Egypt compared with the more ...
Peter A. Clayton, Martin Price. ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Map showing the locations of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 2,3 Maerten van Heemskerck's fanciful sixteenth- century representation of the pyramids of Egypt compared with the more ...
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... showing part of a royal garden . ( British Museum ) 24 Schematic plan of the inner city of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar II . ( After J. Oates ) 42 42 48 49 50 25 The Ishtar Gateway from Babylon , as reconstructed in the ...
... showing part of a royal garden . ( British Museum ) 24 Schematic plan of the inner city of Babylon at the time of Nebuchadnezzar II . ( After J. Oates ) 42 42 48 49 50 25 The Ishtar Gateway from Babylon , as reconstructed in the ...
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... showing the slaughter of the children of Niobe by Apollo and Artemis . ( British Museum ) 37 Relief of Herakles and the battle of the Amazons from the temple of Apollo at Bassae . ( British Museum ) 38 Herakles supporting the world on ...
... showing the slaughter of the children of Niobe by Apollo and Artemis . ( British Museum ) 37 Relief of Herakles and the battle of the Amazons from the temple of Apollo at Bassae . ( British Museum ) 38 Herakles supporting the world on ...
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... showing St John destroying the temple of Artemis at Ephesos . ( Trinity College Library , Cambridge ) 49 Painting by Salvador Dali entitled The Temple of Diana at Ephesus , 1952. ( Courtesy of Staempfli Gallery , New York ) 50 General ...
... showing St John destroying the temple of Artemis at Ephesos . ( Trinity College Library , Cambridge ) 49 Painting by Salvador Dali entitled The Temple of Diana at Ephesus , 1952. ( Courtesy of Staempfli Gallery , New York ) 50 General ...
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS | xi |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xiii |
THE SEVEN WONDERS | xiv |
THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA | 13 |
THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON | 38 |
THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA | 59 |
THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT EPHESOS | 78 |
THE MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS | 100 |
THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES | 124 |
THE PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA | 138 |
SOME FORGOTTEN WONDERS | 158 |
APPENDIX | 169 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 171 |
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Alexander Alexandria 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 deposit 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 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 pyramids of Giza reconstruction relief Roman Rome roof royal sanctuary sarcophagus sculptures seen Seven Wonders showing sides statue of Zeus stone Strabo structure survived temple of Artemis throne tomb Tower wall Zeus at Olympia ziggurrat
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Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction A. B. Bosworth,Elizabeth Baynham Visualização de excertos - 2000 |
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