Date of Award

5-1934

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Herbert W. Rice

Abstract

The Orient offers many quaint and mystifying spectacles of which few people are fully aware. To a reader and would - be student of history the Ancient World appears to be a myth.

Modern man in selecting subjects that will be marveled at through the ages rarely realizes that the ancients, considered to be less intelligent and uncultured than him­ self, erected temples far superior to even the most magnifi­cent cathedral, created art that has to this time been unequaled and buried their dead in even greater splendoe than our millionaires of today could afford.

The selection of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World has no authoritative basis, but it seems that the consensus of opinion at that time favored the selection which is followed in the next chapters. No age or country was favored; At hens and Rome with all their culture and splendor can claim but one of the seven--the others being in Asia, Africa and the Aegean Sea.

The subject, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is too extensive to be able to exhaust the material that can be found in histories, encyclopedias and special books; there ­ fore, the material included in this thesis is sifted down to include merely the fundamental descriptions.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfill­ment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy

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