The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were seven impressive structures famously listed by ancient writers including Philo of Byzantium, Antipater of Sidon, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Strabo, and Callimachus of Cyrene, among others. https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Seven_Wonders/ #History #Alexandria #Babylon #ColossusofRhodes

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Philo of Byzantium's On the Seven Wonders (225 BCE) is the first known list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (though it may have been based on earlier works now lost). Philo's list differs from the standard Seven Wonders in replacing the Lighthouse at Alexandria with the Walls of Babylon. #History #TheSevenWonders #ColossusOfRhodes #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2257/philo-of-byzantiums-on-the-seven-wonders/

Demetrius I of Macedon, also known as Demetrios Poliorcetes, the 'Besieger' (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon/ #History #AntigonusI #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral #ColossusofRhodes

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Demetrius I of Macedon, also known as Demetrios Poliorcetes, the 'Besieger' (c. 336 - c. 282 BCE), was a Macedonian king who, along with his father Antigonus I, fought for control of Alexander the Great's empire in the 'Successor Wars'. After successes in central Greece and Cyprus, he gained his lasting reputation as a master planner and 'Besieger of Cities' following his one-year siege of Rho...https://www.worldhistory.org/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon/ #AntigonusI #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral #ColossusofRhodes

Demetrius I of Macedon, also known as Demetrios Poliorcetes, the 'Besieger' (c. 336 - c. 282 BCE), was a Macedonian king who, along with his father Antigonus I, fought for control of Alexander the Great's empire in the 'Successor Wars'. After successes in central Greece and Cyprus, he gained his lasting reputation as a master planner and 'Besieger of Cities' following his one-year siege of Rho...https://www.worldhistory.org/Demetrius_I_of_Macedon/ #AntigonusI #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral #ColossusofRhodes