Book description
Learn about the Seven Wonders of the World with iMinds insightful
knowledge series. 2,500 years ago, people began to talk about the
wondrous structures they had seen in their travels around the
Mediterranean. In 222 B. C., Philo of Byzantium wrote an essay called On
the Seven Wonders . The historian Herodotus had made his list a few
hundred years before. But it was Antipater of Sidon, a Greek poet, who
brought the Seven Wonders to life in 120 B. C. Antipater lived during
the Hellenistic age, when the culture of the ancient Greeks had spread
throughout the Mediterranean. Seven was a mystical number to people of
this era. And Antipater s Seven Wonders soon became tourist shrines,
much like the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are today. iMinds
brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information
segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds
unique fast-learning products have been praised in the Financial Times,
Wired, Vogue, Robb Report, Sky News, LA Times, Mashable and many
others.. the future of general knowledge acquisition. Learn about the
Seven Wonders of the World with iMinds insightful knowledge series.
2,500 years ago, people began to talk about the wondrous structures they
had seen in their travels around the Mediterranean. In 222 B. C., Philo
of Byzantium wrote an essay called On the Seven Wonders . The historian
Herodotus had made his list a few hundred years before. But it was
Antipater of Sidon, a Greek poet, who brought the Seven Wonders to life
in 120 B. C. Antipater lived during the Hellenistic age, when the
culture of the ancient Greeks had spread throughout the Mediterranean.
Seven was a mystical number to people of this era. And Antipater s Seven
Wonders soon became tourist shrines, much like the Statue of Liberty and
Eiffel Tower are today. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your
eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental
appetite and broaden your mind. iMinds unique fast-learning products
have been praised in the Financial Times, Wired, Vogue, Robb Report, Sky
News, LA Times, Mashable and many others.. the future of general
knowledge acquisition.
