The UnMuseum - The Temple Of Artemis I have seen the walls and Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon, wrote philon ofByzantium, the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty http://www.unmuseum.org/ephesus.htm
Extractions: The Temple of Artemis Artist's conception of the temple 1100 A.D.: A troop of Crusaders stops at a muddy little village in Asia Minor. Their leader looks around. Confused ,he dismounts. This place is not what he expected. He read in the ancient texts that this was a large seaport with many ships docked in its bay. It isn't. The sea is almost three miles away. The village is located in a swamp. There are no ships to be seen. The leader accosts a nearby man. "Sir, is this the city of Ephesus?" "It was called that once. Now it is named Ayasalouk." "Well, where is your bay? Where are the trading ships? And where is the magnificent Greek temple that we have heard about?" Now it is the man's turn to be confused. "Temple? What temple, Sir? We have no temple here..." And so 800 years after its destruction, the magnificent Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , had been completely forgotten by the people of the town that had once held it in such pride. And there is no doubt that the temple was indeed magnificent. "I have seen the walls and Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon," wrote Philon of Byzantium, "the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the high Pyramids and the tomb of Mausolus. But when I saw the temple at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade."
Brain Power - Basic forms of gears have been in existence since ancient times. philon ofByzantium describes gears used as early as 300 BC to lift heavy weights. http://www.televentures.org/brain.htm
Extractions: Brain Power -Gear It up! What is a gear? Gears are frequently thought of as wheels with teeth. Gears come in all sizes, shapes, and materials but have one thing in common: they make work easier. Tire jacks, bicycles, clocks, kitchen appliances, garage door openers and cars are just a few modern machines that use gears. How long have gears been used? Basic forms of gears have been in existence since ancient times. Philon of Byzantium describes gears used as early as 300 BC to lift heavy weights. In Alexandria, Egypt during the first century AD, a mathematician named Heron wrote a book titled, Mechanics, which included illustrations and descriptions of gears. Modern archaeologists have found metal gears dating to 500 AD. Although ancient engineers knew the advantage of using gears, they were too difficult to make with existing technology. They did not come into widespread use until the invention of more precise tools and technology. How do gears work? Gears have become fundamental to the motion of virtually all machines in our society. When two or more gears are connected the movement of one gear is transferred to another gear, enabling the machine to do its job. The transfer of movement from one gear to another can increase either the force of the movement or the speed if the gears are of different sizes. Gears can also change the direction of movement. An important part of understanding how gears increase force is the concept of leverage. A gear may be thought of as series of levers, each one extending from the center of the gear to the end of a gear tooth. Just as a lever moves a load, the tooth of one gear moves the meshing tooth of another gear. The longer a lever is, the greater its force. Hence, the bigger a gear is, the greater its force. By arranging gears of different sizes, machines work with different amounts of force.
Central America Weekly widely chronicled. Greek writers, Antipater of Sidon, and philon ofByzantium compiled the two most well known lists. Most of the http://www.centralamericaweekly.net/172/english/coverstory.html
Extractions: The ancient Greeks were the first to begin compiling lists of the most marvelous structures they knew about. These included historical structures that had long been destroyed, yet were widely chronicled. Greek writers, Antipater of Sidon, and Philon of Byzantium compiled the two most well known lists. Most of the lists agreed on six items on the list, however, the seventh item was widely debated upon. Up until the sixth century AD, the seventh item was usually declared either the Walls of the City of Babylon or the Palace of Cyrus. Finally, around 600 AD, the seventh item was acknowledged as The Lighthouse of Alexandria. Places such as Stonehenge, or The Great Wall of China were beyond the limits of the Ancient Greek World. Thus, the Seven Wonders were mainly confined to the reachable surroundings of the Ancient Greek Empire. Although most people know that a list of the Seven World Wonders exists, only few can name them. The Wonders are the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis, the Masoleum, the Colossus at Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and the Great Lighthouse at Alexandria. Of all Seven Wonders, the only structure that has stood the test of time to this very day, is the Pyramid of Giza. For their builders, the Wonders were a celebration of religion, mythology, art, power, and science. Now, for us, they reflect the ability of humans to drastically change the surrounding landscape by building massive, awe-inspiring and beautiful structures.
Extractions: you need to use a compliant browser rather than Internet Explorer. Fig. 10. Dacian Balista. Mounted as a wall piece. One of the most interesting features in the sculptures of the Trajan Column is the representation, difficult to meet with elsewhere, of the artillery of the Romans. The Romans well understood the advantage, not only of being able to inflict loss on an enemy at long ranges, while he was too distant to annoy their own troops, but also of the moral weight which the possession of mechanical contrivances for this purpose would give them. Some advantage was gained by the Carthaginians when they brought elephants into battle. Besides being formidable in the actual shock of battle, those monsters inspired terror from their size, their supposed ferocity, and the prevailing ignorance about them. In more ancient times the weight, size and space of ground covered by ranks of armed chariots, in the Asiatic and Greek armies, the mere noise produced by these vehicles, the roar of a thousand wheels (without springs) rolling over rough ground, probably contributed to demoralize an enemy before any actual contact with the rank or phalanx of spearmen.
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Papyrus Books & Antiquities: ANCIENT POTTERY REFERENCES Pemberton, Elizabeth G. Corinth Volume XVIII, Part I the Sanctuary ofDemeter and Kore the Greek Pottery. philon, Helen, xviii + 323. http://www.papyrusbooks.com/cgi-bin/papyrus/scan/mp=keywords/se=ANCIENT POTTERY
Extractions: Roman Lamps from Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XL: Number 1 January - March 1971. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XLI: Number 1 January - March 1972. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XXXIX: Number 1 January - March 1970. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XXXIX: Number 2 April - June 1970. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XXXIX: Number 3 July - September 1970. American School of Classical Studies . HESPERIA Journal of the American School of Classical Studies At Athens Volume XXXIX: Number 4 October - December 1970.
Thesis Spñing 1997 Foreign Policy Perspectives in the Caucasus Black Sea and Central Asia AlexandrosPhilon. The Glory of byzantium An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New http://www.hri.org/MFA/thesis/spring97/index1.html
Cyprus' Legacy Of Artistic Brilliance of monuments, especially religious ones, over the many centuries when Byzantiumand its were removed by the Turks from the church of Aghios philon at Agridia http://internet.ana.gr/hermes/2000/apr/culture.htm
Extractions: CULTURE Recent efforts centre on preserving and retrieving the island republic's priceless cultural treasures The mythical birthplace of Aphrodite, Cyprus, was undoubtedly one of the most privileged Byzantine provinces in terms of monuments, especially religious ones, over the many centuries when Byzantium and its unique civilisation reigned supreme in the eastern Mediterranean. As early as the late 4th century AD, early Christian-era basilicas - some, in fact, quite august - were constructed for the large east Mediterranean island's faithful. Although practically all were destroyed by earthquakes, fire and Saracen raids between the 7th and 10th centuries, their ruins to this day remain impressive. Some apses of these basilicas, with roofs made of wood, survived the destruction and were incorporated in middle Byzantine-era churches. Such apses - domed or arched recesses located at the east end of a church - are incorporated in the 11th century churches of Acheiropiitos near Karavas, Panaghia Kanakaria at Lythrangomi, Panaghia Kyra near Livadi (Famagusta district), Panaghia Angeloktistos at Kiti and the Katholikon of Aghia Moni. On either side of the Virgin Mary, the Archangels Michael and Gabriel were depicted. Gabriel's image was long ago destroyed and only his right hand is pictured today. The entire composition was completed by a large decorative band in which there were 13 medallions with the figures of Christ and the 12 Apostles. The central medallion as well as two more were destroyed, while another two depicting the figures of St. Paul and St. Philip were badly damaged.
