De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana)

Anonymi Paradoxographi

Anonymi Paradoxographi. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, Hawes, Greta, author and translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

One should know that some say that the Egyptians were the earliest people; others say the Phrygians, but that, of the Greeks, the oldest were the Athenians and the Pelasgians, who are now called Arcadians. Of the cities, they say that the Athenian Acropolis was founded by Cecrops, the dual-formed, autochthonous hero. The second oldest was the city founded by Phoroneus, son of Inachus, and third was Itonus in Thessaly, founded by Deucalion, son of Prometheus.

The statue of Zeus at Olympia, 36 cubits tall.The temple of Artemis at Ephesus.The altar of horn at Delos, said to have been created from the right horns of victims sacrificed to the god in a single day.The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.The pyramids of Egypt, of which the largest is 400 cubits tall.The walls of Babylon.The Colossus of Rhodes, 70 cubits tall, which Chares of Lindus built.

Some include on this list also the Asclepion at Epidauros, the altar at Parion, the hanging gardens, the standing Athena statue in Athens, and the palace of Cyrus.