The Lighthouse of Alexandria: The History and Legacy of an Ancient Wonder of the World
ISBN: 9781499371451
$6.99
*Includes pictures.
*Includes historic accounts that describe the Lighthouse.
*Explains the debates over how the lighthouse was built and operated, and how it was destroyed.
*Includes a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.
“At the harbor of Alexandria stands the tower called Pharos, the first wonder. It is held together by glass and lead and is 600 yards high” - Epiphanius the Monk
"The Pharos today is composed of four stages. The first, of a rectangular design, is remarkably built in rectangular cut stones, of which the joints are so well concealed that the whole seems to be formed of a single block of stone, remaining insensible to the ravages of time.” – Al Bakri, a medieval traveler and writer.
Over 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity’s most well known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world’s greatest construction projects. While there is still some question as to who actually authored the text attributed to Philo and when it was authored, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, igniting interest in the ones they chose and inspiring subsequent generations to identify their own era’s Seven Wonders.
*Includes historic accounts that describe the Lighthouse.
*Explains the debates over how the lighthouse was built and operated, and how it was destroyed.
*Includes a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.
“At the harbor of Alexandria stands the tower called Pharos, the first wonder. It is held together by glass and lead and is 600 yards high” - Epiphanius the Monk
"The Pharos today is composed of four stages. The first, of a rectangular design, is remarkably built in rectangular cut stones, of which the joints are so well concealed that the whole seems to be formed of a single block of stone, remaining insensible to the ravages of time.” – Al Bakri, a medieval traveler and writer.
Over 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity’s most well known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world’s greatest construction projects. While there is still some question as to who actually authored the text attributed to Philo and when it was authored, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, igniting interest in the ones they chose and inspiring subsequent generations to identify their own era’s Seven Wonders.