Talk:Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Philo of Byzantium
This article claims that there were two Philos of Byzantium: the engineer Philo of Byzantium and another "paradoxographer" writing much later. At the moment, the claims are sourced to a single writer. While I have done some editing to improve readability, I have kept the sense of what is already there.

I think it would be good to understand the extent to which there is a consensus that these are two separate people - is it clear that we need a new Philo of Byzantium (paradoxographer) article, or is there more of a debate doing on?

The Parson's Cat (talk) 09:38, 4 April 2021 hutch


 * I'm currently reading Dalley's book, and while her citations around this assertion are messy (she primarily cites people who in her view got it wrong), her authority appears to be K. Brodersen, Reiseführer zu den Sieben Weltwundern: Philon von Byzantz und andere antike Texte (1992)—although in a separate note she sources Brodersen's translation that identifies a later Philo as the author to a 1999 edition. She also cites I. Finkel and M. Seymour, Babylon Myth and Reality, British Museum Exhibition catalogue 2008, 185 n. 162 as having "corrected" the confusion of the two Philos. —Snarkibartfast (talk) 08:14, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Games featuring Hanging Gardens of Babylon

 * The VR game "Walkabout Mini Golf" by Mighty Coconut features "Gardens of Babylon" (2021) as a course in its lost cities series.

Semi-protected edit request on 26 January 2024
Change "not be confused with" to "not to be confused with" in the last paragraph of the Descriptions in classical literature section 23.118.238.220 (talk) 04:46, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Fixed, thank you. CohenTheBohemian (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

2 of same link
“second, that they existed in Babylon, but were destroyed sometime around the first century AD;”

Right after this colon. Just need one of them. IncandescentBliss (talk) 12:26, 29 January 2024 (UTC)