Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Seven Wonders of the World

Seven ancient buildings or works of art, distinguished either for size or splendour, viz.:

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1.

the Egyptian pyramids;

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2.

the hanging gardens of Semiramis at Babylon;

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3.

the temple of Artemis, at Ephesus;

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4.

the statue of Zeus by Phidias (q.v.), at Olympia;

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5.

the Mausoleum (q.v.) at Halicarnassus;

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6.

the Colossus of Rhodes (see Colossus); and

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7.

the lighthouse on the island of Pharos, off Alexandria in Egypt. (See Pharos.) These wonders were thus classified and celebrated by one of the Alexandrian scholars, Philo of Byzantium, in a work entitled Περὶ τῶν Ἑπτὰ Θεαμάτων, which is edited by Orelli (Leipzig, 1816).