INDEX: PROFESSOR KENNETH
LAPATIN, ALEXANDRIA, THE 7
WONDERS, THE 7 WONDERS OF
ANCIENT WORLD.
PROFESSOR KENETH LAPATIN: THE IDEA OF
THE 7 WONDERS IS IN MANY WAYS
INCONCEIVABLE WITHOUT ALEXANDER THE
GREAT BECAUSE, HIS CONQUETS IN THE
EAST ARE WHAT CREATES THE GREATER
GREEK WORLD IN WHICH THE WONDERS EXIST.
ALEXANDRIA: BECAME THE CENTRE
OF AL OF ALL KNOW LEDGECE. IN
THE 3rd CENTURY BC THE VERY
FIRST LIST OF THE 7 WONDERS
WAS DRAW UP. ONE OF THE
GREATEST SCHOLARS WAS
CALLIMACHUS. IT WAS WRITTEN BY A
GREEK ANTIPATER OF SIDON.
THE 7 WONDERS: THE SYMBOLISM WITH
NUMBER SEVEN GOES BACK TO
BABYLONIA. THE GREEKS THOUGHT THEY
WERE 7 PLANETS. THEREFORE THE 7
WAS AN IMPORTANT NUMBER.
THE 7 WONDERS OF ANCIENT WORLD: A:
PHARUS OF ALEXANDRIA THE TALLEST
LIGHTHOUSE. B: THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES
A GIANT BRONZE STATUE. C: THE TEMPLE OF
ARTEMIS AT EPHESUS, THE LARGEST MARBLE
TEMPLE. D: THE MAUSOLEUM AT
HALICARNASSUS, THE MOS TELABORATED
TOMB. E: THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA,
LIFELIKE IN ITS DETAIL. F:THE HANGING
GARDENS OF BABYLON GREENING IN A
DESSERT. G: THE FOUNDATION FOR THEM
ALL, THE GREAT PYRAMID (KUFU).