"I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the Colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, 'Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.' "
I was watching a documentary on the seven wonders of the ancient world,works of extreme engineering, labour which defied class. This illuded my impression on the greeks and the egyptians.
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Megaloprepis!!!
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