The Contributions Of The Hanging Garden Of Babylon

The Greeks finished building an exquisite temple to their beloved goddess, Athena in the year 432 BCE. (Sayre 60). The name of this enriched, unique temple was the Parthenon. The Parthenon took the Greeks approximately fifteen years to complete and as Pericles stated, it was built to give gratitude to their goddess Athena for the salvation of their city, Athens and all of Greece in the Persian Wars (Sayre 60). It was also a symbol of their power and superiority among other cultures. It was something the Greeks took great pride in and recognized it to a great extent. The Parthenon was built on the highest point of the city of Athens to look over the precious Greek city. On the exterior walls of the Parthenon there was beautiful artwork that

“Babylon Revisited” is a heart felt, beautifully delicate exploration of success, failure and redemption. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his main character Charlie Wales’ past, present, and desired future to paint a portrait of the things that he feels are the most important in life. Success is examined through the actions of Charlie and his wife during the height of their wealth and the strain that it can cause. Failure is unfolded in Charlie’s loss of wealth and family and finally, redemption is explored through Charlie’s desire to raise his daughter and control his apparent alcoholism.

The similarities and differences between the design, construction and environmental performance of a typical Mesopotamian ‘courtyard’ and a Roman ‘peristyle’ house

In the story F. Scotts Fitzgerald dubbed, "Babylon Revisited" a story about a man named Charlie Wales who goes on a quest to go to Paris and bring back his daughter, Honoria, back home to live with him instead of his sister and brother-in-law. Charlie was a man who had a drinking problem when him and his wife were still together even when they had Honoria. Eventually, Charlie 's bad temperment led him to lock his wife out of his house which indirectly led to her untimely death and Honoria being taken away from him and put into the care of his sister/brother-in-law in Paris. Charlie tries to convince his brother and sister-in-law, Lincoln and Marion, to release Honoria into his custody to return back home in Prague. Charlie eventually convinces the both of them to give him back Honoria, but in the end after reflecting on the things that Charlie has done in the past and is current state the couple change their mind and tell him to first completely fix his drinking problem. Before diving into the analysis, a little background context for this time era is neccessary before going any further. This story occurs towards the end of the Great Depression where Charlie returns to Paris from a sanitarium because of his alcholism problem. The Great Depression was a time where the stock market crashed in 1929 and as a result, Charlie 's money crashed along with it which could have been the cause of his severe alcholism. Now that Charlie has returned to Paris though after a few years, he

The Greek Gods were honored with temples gifts and statues. The most famous is probably the Athena Parthenos (see page 7). It was mode of ivory and gold and was housed in the Parthenon in Athens. The Athena Parthenos was made only by two people and is almost 12 meters (38 feet) high. It took about 9 whole years to complete. The Athena Parthenos held a human sized statue of Nike the Greek god of

The remains of ancient Babylon are about 90 kms to modern bagdhad south. Its original name, "bab-ili", translated as "the gate of the Gods". Babylon is one of the most famous cities in ancient times of the world. It is famous for its exquisite, beautiful and magnificent. As cultural and political prosperous

INTRO: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World inspired awe and fascination during their time. The Seven Wonders include; the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artimas at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Hallcannassus and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Most of the seven wonders were destroyed by earthquakes, except for the Great Pyramids at Giza, which is the only one still standing today. The Colossus of Rhodes was a large bronze statue which stood near the harbor of Rhodes. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzer II for one of his wives, because she missed her homeland. The Temple of Artimas at Ephesus was built around 5000 bc. The Statue of Zeus was the most famous statue in the ancient world. The Mausoleum of Hallcannassus was famous because of its large size and decoration. All large tombs are named mausoleums today. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed by Greek architect, Sotratos.

Throughout the story "Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are a variety of different factors that are revealed. The one that shot out the most is how Charlie shows the inability to let go of his past life in Paris. When he was younger and married, he was a heavy alcoholic along with his wife. One cold, winter night, they were wasted and they got into a heated argument. Charlie locked his wife outside of their home and she past away that night....The causing death was heart problems, but Charlie's sister-in-law blames him for her death. To try and "restart" his life, he moves to America for 10 months and regains the money he lost from the stock market crash. He eventually makes his way towards Paris for the urge of wanting his daughter back. Even though Charlie

Artemis, goddess of fertility and twin sister of Apollo. It had the largest temple of ancient times. It was built of marble. It had 127 columns that fly 62 feet up to the tiled wooden roof. Carefully, cutted bases decorate 36 of these columns. The four bronze statues of Amazons were housed inside. The structure measured by 380 feet by 180 feet wide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Babylon Revisited,” (rpt. in Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 199-216) begins in Paris at Ritz Bar when a character named Charlie Wales is introduced. Charlie Wales, is described as a renewed father who tries to regain custody of his daughter Honoria after his previous life of drinking and recklessness. Charlie’s old life of drinking and partying caused him to partake in numerous regretful activities, resulting in the death of his own wife, Helen. Due to Charlie’s actions, Honoria was put in guardianship with Helen’s sister, Marion. While Charlie claims to be over with his old habits, Marion questions if he actually is. F.

There was an established set of believers in the city prior to Paul’s third and most influential journey of ministry. However, Ephesus had its share of philosophical pagan ideas (1 Corinthians 15:32), worshipped the pagan goddess Diana (Act 19:27), and was a very wealthy city whose focus was on desires of the flesh. Ephesus was a metropolis which was easily accessible by land and sea. This made it idea for the numerous visitors who were drawn to see the impressive Temple of Artemis. The Temple Artemis was dedicated to honor the goddess Diana and because of

My wonder, The Temple Of Artemis, was created to honor and worship the greek goddess Artemis. The construction was funded by King Croesus of Lydia. The temple was designed and built by an architect from Crete named Chersiphron, and his son Metagenes. It was built in Ephesus at a commercial crossroads. The Temple of Artemis was the first building to be made of marble.

Agrippa, Augustus’ right-hand man, constructed this building as a temple to all the gods; however, a fire destroyed this temple in 80 CE and so Domitian built the reconstruction. The Pantheon we are familiar with has a significantly different design than the original one, and this is why this specific temple is so dislike to the rest of the Roman temples. Before it was burnt, the Pantheon stood in a podium at the end of a large rectangular court. The surroundings of this temple have changed in order to provide a unique experience to its visitors. For example, the temple has en enormous dome with a 27-foot oculus that opens to the sky. This oculus lets a shaft of light come through creating an emphasis wherever the reflection is. Visitors were driven nowhere but to the light at the center of the dome. This building was built for greeting foreign embassies, adjudicating disputes and hold court (Janson). Moreover, the Pantheon is extraordinary because of the potential and strength of concrete. Some other materials used in the process of building the temple include travertine, tufa, brick, and pumice. These materials varied in order to reduce its weight. The colored marble on the wall symbolized imperial authority. The sphere is though to symbolize eternity and perfection and the bronze panels symbolized a starry night sky.

Babylonian civilization is considered as one of the most important civilizations in the ancient world. The Babylonians took and developed everything after the Sumerians civilization especially in the spiritual realm and in the field of building an integrated civilization. The earlier civilizations had big role in the Babylonians civilization period when Babylonians took all the cuneiform writing, mathematical and astronomical knowledge, in addition to that the method of building cities, dams and etc. they improved all of them. The development of knowledge continued by Babylonian where the Sumerians stop, and the Babylonian built an empire for themselves on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the southern part of Sumer (Iraq). "The first Amuriyahian family has ruled over Babylon in the period (1830- 1530 BC), when Babylon was a mini-states at the time." Then the greatest king of Babylonian Hammurabi appeared in the seventeenth century BC. He established a famous group of laws known by (Hammurabi code).Also he was the king who united this petty States and achieved an important architectural movement in the city of Babylon.

There are seven most remarkable structures of ancient times and I’m going to write about four out of the seven. The statue of Zeus, which was created in 432 B.C., by Phidius, the lighthouse Of Alexandria that was created by Sostratus in 290 B.C. and took 20 years to complete. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus that was first created in 800 B.C. by Croesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus that was built around 353 and 350 B.C. These are only four out of the seven wonders I will be writing about who commissioned and created each one of them. How they were built, where they were located, when was it constructed, why they were considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and what happened to them.