Herostratus burned it down in 356 BC in an attempt to achieve lasting fame. * Temple of Artemis at Ephesus built 550 BC and dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. Destroyed by post-1st century BC Earthquake. Herodotus claimed that the outer walls were 56 miles in length, 80 feet thick and 320 feet high. Beginning with Greece and then Persia, de Selincourt follows Herodotus down the path of history, war, and contention, leading to the epic and climactic clash of Greek and Persian. * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon built around 600 BC. Herodotus described Persian civilization not with the contempt and condescension of a Greek enemy, but, surprisingly, with sympathy, humanity, and even admiration. * The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2650-2500 BC as the tomb of fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, and is still standing. The list came mostly from ancient Greek writings, so only sites that would have been known and visited by the ancient Greeks were included. The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages - by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305-240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of “seven wonders” but their writings did not survive, except as references. Widely considered one of the first serious works of history, Histories written in the 5th century BCE by the Greek scholar Herodotusis a highly influential account of the Greco-Persian wars.
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