The classic list is based on a short poem by Antipater of Sidon to ( 125 BC) or Antipater of Thessalonica (between 20 BC and 20 AD) in which the poet praises the Seven Wonders of the World. This list originally mentioned
However, keep references to other previous lists by the historian Herodotus , or engineer Philo of Byzantium , although his writings have not survived, except as references. In
listings are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are not, in her shoes the walls of the city.
Related to the list itself often raises the issue of why Seven and not another number. There is no definitive answer, but the seventh was for the Greeks and also for parts of his empire a perfect number. Seven are the times he had to forgive, as the Hebrew and interpretation of Old Testament , seven deadly sins were after, and so on.
the same way all are human constructions and that the Greeks could admire [1] . Does not contain any natural wonder or any debris, and this was majestic. In part that's why we talk about one eighth wonder of the world: the tower of Babel the Babylonian ziggurat, but this building was in ruins when they arrived the soldiers of Alexander the Great and the list of wonders data 200 years later. But the possibility of a wonder more has helped coin the phrase Eighth Wonder of the World to refer to all human work that is ahead of its time.
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