The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World
Subject
The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World
Description
SHELLEY'S FAMOUS sonnet 'Ozymandias' was written after a visit to the British Museum in 1817, where he
saw the massive granite torso of Ramesses II recently taken by Belzoni from the Ramesseum at Thebes in Egypt. Belzoni had been prevented from removing the foot of a second, larger statue which he saw nearby; it was the account of this foot which inspired Shelley's poem. The statue to which the foot belonged may origi-
nally have weighed 1000 tonnes. Colossal statuary
on such an enormous scale was designed to inspire
feelings of awe and wonder. Such feelings outlive
even the collapse and ruin of the monument itself,
for the massive remains - the foot of Ramesses II, or
the hollow bronze limbs of the fallen Colossus of
Rhodes seen by Roman travellers the imagination.
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saw the massive granite torso of Ramesses II recently taken by Belzoni from the Ramesseum at Thebes in Egypt. Belzoni had been prevented from removing the foot of a second, larger statue which he saw nearby; it was the account of this foot which inspired Shelley's poem. The statue to which the foot belonged may origi-
nally have weighed 1000 tonnes. Colossal statuary
on such an enormous scale was designed to inspire
feelings of awe and wonder. Such feelings outlive
even the collapse and ruin of the monument itself,
for the massive remains - the foot of Ramesses II, or
the hollow bronze limbs of the fallen Colossus of
Rhodes seen by Roman travellers the imagination.
-continue to fire 12
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Thames dan Hudson
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Citation
Thames dan Hudson, “The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World,” Portal Ebook UNTAG SURABAYA, accessed March 15, 2025, https://ebook.untag-sby.ac.id/items/show/322.