The Seven Wonders of the World - A History of the Modern Imagination
Author(s): JOHN AND ELIZABETH ROMER
This fascinating and well-illustrated exploration, now republished, uses archaeological and documentary evidence to reconstruct each of the seven wonders of the ancient world in turn. Beginning with the Olympian statue of Zeus and continuing eastwards around the Mediterranean to the pyramids, they investigate the physical and symbolic remains of these works, each of which was originally created to represent an ideal.
2005. Reprint. A near fine copy only marked by a previous owners stamp on the front free endpaper. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine with only light edge rubbing.
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General Fields
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- : Seven Dials
- : 01 December 2005
- : books
Special Fields
- : 336
- : 709.01
- : Hardback
- : JOHN AND ELIZABETH ROMER