Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)

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1. Story
2. The author to whom the short treatise De septem mundi miraculis, On the Seven Wonders, is ascribed. He is not the third-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus with whom he is persistently confused; on linguistic grounds, including a rigorous avoidance of hiatus noted by Hermann von Rohden, he is placed somewhere between the fourth and sixth centuries CE. The treatise survives in a single ninth-century manuscript, Heidelberg Palatinus graecus 398, where the ascription appears. It is the fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, and it was written centuries after most of them had already been ruined.
3. Knowledge
4. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
5. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
6. Connections
7. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
8. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
9. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
10. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
11. Colossus of Rhodes
12. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
13. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
14. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
15. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
16. Antipater of Sidon
17. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
18. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
19. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
20. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
21. Evidence
22. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.