Antipater of sidon biography of abraham lincoln

Chances are you’ve never heard of a guy named Antipatros Sidonios. The English version of his title – the Antipater of Sidon – probably doesn’t ring a bell, either. And it likely doesn’t help to know Antipatros was a 2nd century B.C.

poet, and that Antipater means something along the lines of “father” or “like the father,” and Sidon is an ancient coastal city in what’s now Lebanon.

But anyone who’s ever read a history book surely knows about a famous list put together by this Greek bard.

A sort of guide to the world’s tourism hotties at the time, it read like this::

“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 au