What are the Seven Wonders of the World?

What are the Seven Wonders of the World? And 60 Other Great Cultural Questions — PETER D'EPIRO and MARY DESMOND PINKOWISH

Como frases, eles são familiares: os quatro cavaleiros do Apocalipse, as sete maravilhas do mundo antigo, os doze trabalhos de Hércules... Mas você consegue nomear os cavaleiros? Por que sete maravilhas? E quem desafiou Hércules a limpar os estábulos de Augias?

Esta é uma edição de luxo da Folio Society.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction 

THREE

1 Who were the 3 sons of Adam and Eve? 1

2 Who are the 3 gods of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti)? 4

3 Who are the 3 daughters of King Lear? 7

4 Who are the 3 Musketeers? 16

5 Who were the 3 sons of Noah? 19

6 What are the 3 ages of Vico’s historical cycle? 21

7 Who were the 3 Magi, and what gifts did they bring? 23

8 What are the 3 components of the Freudian psyche? 27

9 What 3 beasts confront Dante in Canto 1 of the Inferno? 30

10 Who were the 3 Furies? 33

11 What are Newton’s 3 laws of motion? 37

12 What were the 3 temptations of Christ? 41

13 Who were the 3 Fates? 44

FOUR

14 What were the 4 elements and their associated humours? 46

15 What are the 4 voyages of Lemuel Gulliver? 49

16 What were the 4 chief winds in ancient Greece? 54

17 Which 4 US Presidents were assassinated, and who were their killers? 57

18 Who are the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse? 62

19 Who were the Big Four, and what nations did they represent at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)? 66

20 Who were the 4 Brontë siblings? 71

21 Who were the 4 Evangelists, and what were their symbols? 76

FIVE

22 What are the 5 pillars of Islam? 82

23 What were the 5 events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon? 86

24 What are the 5 classical architectural orders? 89

25 Who were the Russian composers known as the Mighty Five? 93

26 What were the 5 rivers of the classical underworld? 98

SIX

27 What are the 6 flavours of quarks? 103

28 Who were the 6 wives of Henry VIII? 108

29 Who were the 6 French composers known as Les Six? 113

SEVEN

30 What are the 7 wonders of the ancient world? 116

31 What were the works of the 7 days of Creation? 124

32 What were the 7 hills of Rome? 127

33 What were the 7 liberal arts of the medieval curriculum? 132

34 Where do the English names of the 7 days of the week come from? 137

35 What are the 7 sacraments? 143

36 Who were the 7 against Thebes? 148

37 Who were the 7 Sages of Greece? 152

38 What are the 7 deadly sins? 156

39 What are the 7 virtues? 161

40 What are the 7 ages of man according to Shakespeare? 164

41 What were the 7 metals of alchemy and their associated gods and planets? 167

42 What were the 7 French dynasties? 172

43 What are the 7 voyages of Sinbad the Sailor? 175

EIGHT

44 What are the components of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism? 181

45 What are the 8 Beatitudes? 188

NINE

46 Who were the 9 great gods of ancient Egypt (The Great Ennead)? 194

47 Who were the 9 Muses, and what were their associated arts? 198

48 What are the 9 orders of angels (from lowest to highest)? 204

49 Who were the 9 Worthies? 209

50 Who were the 9 lyric poets of ancient Greece? 217

51 What are the 9 planets, and how long do they take to orbit the sun? 228

52 What are the 9 Circles of Dante’s Inferno? 233

TEN

53 What are the 10 Commandments? 236

54 What were the 10 plagues of Egypt? 239

ELEVEN

55 Which were the 11 states of the Confederacy? 243

TWELVE

56 What were the Latin names of the 12 months, and what did they mean? 247

57 Who were the 12 Olympian gods and their Roman equivalents? 252

58 What were the 12 labours of Heracles? 266

59 Who were the 12 Apostles? 270

60 Who were the 12 knights of the Round Table? 275

61 What are the 12 signs of the zodiac and the sources of their names? 280

Index 288

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