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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD

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SEVEN WONDERS OF THE See also:

WORLD , the name conferred on a select See also:group of See also:ancient See also:works of See also:art which had obtained pre-See also:eminence among the sight-seers of the Alexandrian era. The earliest extant See also:list, doubtless compiled from the numerous See also:guide books then current in the See also:Greek world," is that of the epigrammatist See also:Antipater of See also:Sidon (2nd See also:century B.C.). A second and slightly divergent list from the See also:hand of a See also:Byzantine rhetorician has been incorporated in the works of See also:Philo of See also:Byzantium. The monuments are as follows: (1) the pyramids of See also:Egypt, (2) the gardens of See also:Semiramis at See also:Babylon, (3) the statue of See also:Zeus at See also:Olympia (see See also:PHEIDIAS), (4) the See also:temple of See also:Artemis at See also:Ephesus, (5) the See also:Mausoleum at See also:Halicarnassus (see MAUSOLEUM), (6) the See also:Colossus at See also:Rhodes, (7) the Pharos (lighthouse) of See also:Alexandria, or the Walls of Babylon. See " Philo " De septem mundi miraculis (ed. Hercher, See also:Paris, 1858).

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