Seven Wonders of the World

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Donna McCray Marci Hurst ART 111 Arts and Idea I 22 April 2013 The Seven Wonders of the World We all want to be remembered forever. Athletes try for rings and trophies that state that they were the best of the best; Actors yearn for the “role of a lifetime” to be admired by future generations. So, if we have those desires now, why wouldn’t the ancient civilizations have the same desires? So how did these civilizations manage to live forever, they achieved things that to even this day we would consider amazing, and these amazing feats make up the Seven Wonders of the World. Just like we create random surveys of things that happen now, the ancient Greeks did the same thing. The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World was basically a list of landmarks or monuments that the ancient Greeks to be amazing accomplishments during their lifetime. The original 7 wonders of the world consisted of the Pyramids of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympus, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus at Rhodes and finally after much debate among the Greeks the Lighthouse of Alexandria (Krystek, 2011) . So after much of my own thought, I have created my own personal top 4 wonders of the ancient world from the original 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. They are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for the horticulturist in me, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus for my inner goddess, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus for the romantic in me and finally for the New Englander in me, the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Now that I have chosen my top four let’s get a closer look at each on and see why the Greeks considered it to be one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World. The first of my 4 chosen Wonders of the Ancient World are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The city of Babylon was known for many things. Visitors marveled at the massive walls that

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