Wonders of the World

Wonders of the World Wonders of the World or The Seven Wonders of the ancient world were already in a list of specific buildings or statues. The oldest tradition of a list of wonders of the world goes back to the historian Herodotus (about 450 BC).
The first complete list of known "Seven Wonders" is found in an epigram of the writer Antipater of Sidon (2.-century BC), who wrote a guidebook of the Mediterranean and Near East. The Greeks called it: Τὰ ἑπτὰ θεάματα τῆς οἰκουμένης [γῆς] hepta Tà theámata tes Oikoumene [strengthen] - "The seven monuments of the inhabited [earth]." Philo of Byzantium, she described in Scripture, "De septem mundi miraculis. That the list originated in Asia Minor, is obvious: Four of the wonders found there. Since that time, many impressive buildings and be-formed, led mainly those in the vicinity of the writer.

This list has been modified over the years, and often adapted to the travel patterns of their respective companies. Even in classical times there were alternatives) as the Capitol in Rome, the "horns of the altar of Artemis at Delos," the "Hadrianustempel of Zeus at Cyzicus" (southern Sea of Marmara and many more. Thus, in the 13th Century, the entire city of Rome, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) and even included Noah's ark. From this initial short list of travel times thus a little travel brochure, all important buildings, like temples or sculptures contained. But this fell apart with time and remained in my memory above all the myth of the original wonders of the world. Representations of the ancient wonders of the world there are very few, however, found some coins of the Helios head, with the statue of Zeus in profile or with the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Descriptions of the mausoleum are available. In the Renaissance period artists such as the Dutchman finished Maerten van Heemskerck and the Austrian Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach depictions of the miracles in their own image on.

Even today, the classic "Seven Wonders" inspired authors to create ever new lists of "wonders" in various areas. Among contemporary buildings fall as well as lists of natural disasters or exceptional works of art.