some other unusual quality (Donovan 325). We should not let these legacies be left

behind in the past, because each of these "Seven Wonders" has a story hidden within

their ruins, or in one case, within its remains. Picture these architectural structures

as I uncover the legends of The Statue of Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Pyramids

of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and the

The first full modern version of the list appeared less than four centuries ago in

Italy in 1608 (Romer IX). After that the lists varied, sometimes naming ten wonders,

but always keeping the honored name of "The Seven Wonders of the World" (IX). The

listing of these wonders initiated by Greeks and Romans listed memorable things that

they thought travelers should see (Donovan 325). The origianl authorship of the list

is not completely proven, but it is believed to be composed by Bede and Philo (Romer

X). Philo's list is the most impressive, because of it's uncomparable text, in length,

built (18). The largest of the three Giza Pyramids is the Pyramid of Cheops (18).

but must have used an incline plane to raise the blocks (20). How the inside of teh

In 312 B.C. Rhodes joined King Ptolemy of Egypt in his war against Antigonous of Macedona (Grigson 14). Later the Macedonians returned for revenge on the Rhodes and besiged the city with a fast force of men and ships (14). The Rhodians managed to hold them back for a year until Ptolemy of Egypt finally cam to the rescui (14). Among the defenders of Rhodes, was a sculptor, Chares of Lindus (14). To praise him, the Rhodians commissioned him to create a huge bronze statue in honor of the island's patron, the sun god Helios or Apollo (14). The statue celabrated the unity of the Rhode's three-city states (Ashmawy 1). The task to Chares took twelve years, from 292 B.C. to 280 B.C. (Grigson 14). It was 105 feet high, 295 tons, and cast entirely from metal taken from the war engines abandoned by the Macedonians (14). The Colossus of Rhodes is hallow inside supported by interior stone and iron blocks (Ashmawy 1). The statue stood on a promontory overlooking the water and on some accounts, ships sailed between its legs, for it stood near the harbor of Rhodes, a Greek Island in the Aegean Sea (1). According to the story, when it was complete, Chares found a mistake in his calculations and killed himself (14. The Colossus was one of the greatest pieces of self-criticism and hailed as the most perfect representation of a human form (14). In 224 B.C., and earthquake rocked the island snapping the statue at its knees, toppling across a whole city block (McLeish 5). The Rhodians left it lying there for another 900 years (5). The Colossus of Rhodes was to be the most short-lived of the world's wonders (Grigson 15). Later, when Arabs captured Rhodes, the statue's remains were sold to a Jewish merchant for scrap (15).

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