WEBVTT - Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part II 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:01.280 Chuck here. 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.600 I hope everyone's doing well on this lovely Saturday. I 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.920 gotta say, if you've been sitting around for two weeks 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.880 wondering what the other seven Wonders of the Ancient World are, well, 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.600 that is some serious patients, my friends. So here it 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.680 is Part two, continuing from two weeks ago, How the 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:26.920 Seven Wonders of the Ancient World work. Welcome to Stuff 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:32.240 You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.360 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.440 there's Charles w O'Bryant, and there's guest producer Noel again. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.000 And that makes this Stuff you Should Know Part two. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:47.279 That's right. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.720 Did you ever see hot Shots Part two? The sequel? 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.560 No, you know, I didn't see a lot of those 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.680 movies at all, except for the airplane movies and the 0:00:57.760 --> 0:00:58.720 naked gun movies. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.320 The hot Shots movies were worth seeing. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.360 Did not see those. Did not see any of the 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:05.200 scary movies. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.360 Oh, the scary movies? You haven't seen those? 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:08.880 Nope? 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.280 All of them are good, Like every single one of 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:12.880 those are good. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:13.560 Really? 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.280 Yeah. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.640 I did record a movie crush yesterday with uh for the. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.000 Movie Scream though, Oh yeah, with who Nate Bargatzi uh 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.200 huh comedian. Sure, so we It was interesting that I 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.440 had to do Scream research in like that movie changed 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.920 like horror movies were on their last legs. 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:35.200 Yes, they were. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.640 Not to say that something else might not have come along, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.400 But it was Scream that like revitalized a genre. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:41.920 Yep, that's pretty cool. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.399 Yeah, it was kind of a watershed movie. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.600 Did we talk about that in the horror movies that 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.240 changed the the genre? I'm pretty sure we had to. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:51.800 Boy, if we didn't, we missed out. 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.640 Well. If we didn't, we probably just said and obviously 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.400 Scream we don't even need to mention that. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.320 Well, it launched the Scream franchise. It launched the scary 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.520 movie franchise in a way m hm oh yeah, and 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:03.560 relaunched a genre. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.320 Yeah, so scary movies we're seeing hot shots is worth. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.279 Seeing naked guns were seeing. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.680 Of course, although I would put either one of the 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.639 hot shots up against the third naked gun any day 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.040 of the week. That's that's that's my. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.800 Bookie over the third naked gun. Yeah, okay, that's fair. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.359 Yeah, and then don't get me started on what was 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.280 it like the god Son? But what the god Son? 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:30.480 I don't know what that is. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.000 It was like a Godfather spoof that Leslie Nielsen was 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.880 in with Dom de Luise. I haven't even seen five 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:38.560 minutes of it. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:40.760 I don't even know what that is. And you stump me, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.560 Oh good, thank you. Well, that's a good start to 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:46.880 this episode. Do you think you're welcome? 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:52.440 Thank you? Uh so, Chuck, Yes, we're moving on. We've 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.600 already talked about the Great Pyramids at Cufu, we talked 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.880 about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Temple of 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.440 Artemis at afisis right, all three of them top top notch. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:02.880 Yeah. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:04.800 And if you don't know what we're talking about now, 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.440 and this is your first episode of stuff, you should know. Ever, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.480 this is the second of a two part episode. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.600 There you go on the. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:18.000 Seven Ancient Seven Wonders the Ancient World, and here's part. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.120 Two, right, and we're going to start with the statue 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.280 of Zeus at Olympia. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:25.400 Yeah. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.959 To say it like that, there's no other way to 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:27.919 say it. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:33.120 That's how Well, who's the guy's name, the the boxing guy. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:34.720 That guy I don't know his name. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.920 Yeah, he used to stand at the statue of Zeus 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.000 and say that on an hourly basis. 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.600 Yep, it's pretty pretty amazing stuff. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.000 So this one is one of my favorites, but not 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.000 my favorite. I promise that my favorite was in here, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.480 but this is not quite it. Okay, although it's close, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.440 because you know, this is this is the main deal here, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.040 Olympia Zeus. This is now run of the mill god 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.080 and some cast off city. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.840 No, it was the sight of the first Olympics, so 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.520 it was a pretty important city. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.200 Very important it was. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.080 It was nowhere near Mount Olympus though, curiously, but it 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.000 was pretty pretty important, right, Yes, this one, to me 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.840 is the most ho hum of them all. Oh yeah, 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.000 I'm not quite sure why, but I am just kind 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:26.160 of like whatever about it? 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.719 All right? Well the temple. Let's talk about the temple 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.520 at first. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.280 Okay, And also I should warn you that this article 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.680 has the proportions wildly incorrect. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.200 Oh the how tall it was? 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:37.960 Yeah? 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.560 All right? What is it? For real? 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.080 This thing? This article says it was two hundred and 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.560 ten feet tall. That's a twenty story building. Yeah, the 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.719 temple was not as tall as a twenty story building. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.960 It was sixty eight feet tall. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.200 How did they get it that wrong? 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.920 I don't know. I just don't know, it's staggering. It's 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.080 as staggering as this temple would have been had it 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.279 been two hundred feet tall. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.200 And it doesn't even say it was somewhere between sixty 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.560 eight and two hundred and ten feet, right, it's weird. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:06.880 Yeah, that's annoying. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.320 Everything else is right about it though. Okay, so it 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.719 was sixty eight feet tall. Still pretty impressive, sure. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:15.040 For the time. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.159 Well yeah, but I would have to say if somebody, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.480 if you were driving through Dunwoodie he saw a sixty 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.240 eight foot tall temple, yeah, you would probably still be impressed, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.320 even though somebody just built it. So I think it's 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.760 still impressive even today. 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.000 Yes, so the temple's frail impressive, But inside we're talking 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.440 about the statue mainly the Greek artists. Phidias was commissioned, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.039 and I imagine these artists were paid pretty handsomely for 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:44.680 these jobs. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.359 Yeah, because you know, there's only a few of them 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.320 who are capable of doing this at the time. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.160 Yeah, I mean there are only a few people in 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.640 the world could do this now, right on something of 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.040 this scale. So they said, hey, Zeus is the man. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.320 We want a statue of Zeus. And he said yeah, 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.520 I can knock that out. It's four fifty BC. Shouldn't 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.080 take me too long. Eight years later he was finished. 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:14.240 Right, and he used some really weird materials. Like so 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.440 the temple itself, it was like a standard temple, sixty 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.479 eight feet tall, like all of them were a bunch 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.000 of columns, that kind of thing. But the statue inside 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.640 is apparently what was the big draw. And one of 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.919 the reasons why it was something to see was because 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.640 Phidias used ivory and gold rather than marble, which is 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.440 it was pretty much what you used to make a 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.800 statue back at that time. And they think one of 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.400 the reasons why he used or not ebony, but ivory 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.360 and gold was right. But the reason why they thought 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.680 that was because he was building a statue to Zeus, right, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.680 so it needed to be special. This is like the 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.359 king of the gods. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.120 Yeah, and ivory was definitely something that people would travel 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:05.080 to see a statue made of ivory of Zeus. So basically, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.920 Zus is sitting down in this statue, and he's sitting 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.080 just straight up. He's not like like you know how 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.640 the Lincoln and his memorials kind of chilling in his seat. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.880 Zeus is not chilling. He's sitting up ready for action. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.920 Yeah, he's like, what'd you say? What'd you say? 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.840 Kind of The statue itself was about fifty feet high, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.960 which is super impressive. Like when you see a rendering 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.040 of what someone look like standing at the base of 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.880 this thing, it's really pretty striking. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.960 And one of the things they said about it was 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:39.080 that if he stood up, he would have his head 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.240 would have burst through the roof of the of the temple. Yeah, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:47.120 which was probably pretty cool to see too. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.240 He was sitting down at fifty feet right, totally would have. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.720 Right, he would have just been like Sue smash. So 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:00.880 he's holding in one hand a statue Nike, So it's 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.960 a statue holding a statue, and Nike is a wing 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.840 goddess a victory, right, so it's kind of like his 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.920 version of tinker Bell hanging out in his hand. And 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.000 on the other hand he's holding a scepter, which is 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.720 pretty appropriate for the King of the gods. And again 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.800 he's seated on this throne. And yeah, if you look 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.640 at artists rendering of them, we should say here, most 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.120 of this stuff, by the time these lists were written 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:30.680 were already aged and then they crumbled over time, so 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.640 we actually don't know exactly what they looked like. Some 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.960 people saw him firsthand, but a lot of this information 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.280 comes from second hand sources or even further down the 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.400 chain than that, so we're not exactly certain of what 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.920 they looked like. But for most of these, because they 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.080 were so widely regarded as seven Wonders of the ancient world, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.240 that you have to see that enough people wrote about 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.920 him talked about him that if you really spent some time, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.280 you could put these sources together and come with probably 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.280 an accurate description of what it looked like. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:02.640 Yeah, for sure. 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.640 The remarkable thing about this one is, apparently, was the 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.520 expression on Zeus's face. Not only is he sitting straight 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.840 up ready for action, he just had this look on 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:15.280 his face. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.280 It was kind of intimidating. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.400 I guess you could say, you've disappointed me and your mother. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.400 That's what it. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.520 Said, and the legend has it, and I don't buy 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.760 this at all, But Phidias said that once I'm finished 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.760 with this saying, he asked for Zeus's blessing on the sculpture, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.200 and a bolt of lightning struck the temple at that 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:34.839 very moment. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:36.240 I don't believe it. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.280 No, No, as a matter of fact, if you do 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.360 believe that, right in so we can tell you that 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:47.240 you're wrong. So there were a couple of issues with 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:52.040 this statue. Number one, it was built a couple hundred 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.199 years a few hundred years before Christianity began and then 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.760 started to spread in the area. Once that happened, the 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.680 worshipers of Zeus who still remained, said we need to 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.040 get this out of here. These Christians, they don't play around. 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.400 They're going to get rid of this thing, right, And 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.800 they moved the statue to Constantinople and it stayed there 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.720 safe for a while, actually apparently housed in a palace. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.160 But one of the things about the statue was it 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.400 was made of gold and ivory, but those things were 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.679 overlaid on top of a wooden sculpture. Yeah, which is 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.000 kind of like it's pretty slack phidious. Maybe you should 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:32.679 have stuck with the marble. Maybe, But the palace in 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.240 Constantinople caught fire. 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.360 Yeah that's a problem because marble doesn't burn, doesn't. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.440 No, it doesn't. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.440 Yeah, So it would have survived, but he cheaked out, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:45.400 let's be. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.080 Honest, Yeah, he phoned this one in. 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.000 Yeah, and they were right to have moved that thing, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.600 because the Christians did come in and take care of business, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.319 shut down that temple in three ninety one a d. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.200 But by that time the statue was gone at least. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.320 But yeah, burned it fire. So earthquakes and fires are 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.000 taking out all of the wonders. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:09.040 Earthquakes, fires and Christians. Yeah, the great level is pretty 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:14.480 much so back in I think in nineteen fifty, this 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.360 guy and again like this stuff just sat in the 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.920 realm of legend for a long time. Although I think 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.679 the I think the ruins of the temple itself are 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.160 still around, aren't they that? 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:28.840 I'm not sure. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.840 I think they might be. I like, over the last 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.240 two days, I've seen so many pictures of ancient temple 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.600 ruins that I'm like, which, wait, which one is that? Yeah, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.800 bush right, I think this one may still be around 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.360 in Olympia, the ruins of the temple, like you can 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.560 still make out a couple of steps leading up to 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.720 that kind of thing, and there's like the posts of 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.360 a couple of pillars or whatever. But they found in 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:57.800 nineteen fifty the workshop that Phidias used beside the temple, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.080 and apparently we're able to recreate using the molds that 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:06.480 they found probably what the statue looked like, which is 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.679 pretty impressive, just working from old molds. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:10.600 Yeah. Not only that, but. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.480 These were on coins, right, Oh, yeah, that's right, that's 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.440 the other one. Yeah, they were on Greek coins. So 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.920 this isn't one where you really had to guess so 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.560 much what it looked like because on those coins there 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.280 there's a lot of detail about what it looked like. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:31.080 And because coins, you know, they were originated there, just 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.080 where they ended up eventually would give a little indication 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.760 on how far people had traveled come see this saying 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:39.880 when they carry those coins. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.160 Back, Yeah, it made me wonder, like were those coins 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.000 currency or were they like souvenirs, like if you go 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.280 to Dollywood or Kennedy Space Center or something like that 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.000 and get a coin made. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.600 Yeah, I didn't think about that. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.640 I wonder because I mean, this was an age where 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.160 there were tourists and they were already selling the replicas 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.480 of the Temple of Artemis as tourist mementos. I wonder 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.920 if these coins were that team. Yeah, pretty pretty neat 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.640 to think about ancient tourists. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:06.840 Should we take a break, Yeah. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.160 All right, I'm gonna contemplate that, and we'll be back 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:09.760 right after this. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.880 Okay, chuck, here's my second favorite. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:38.160 Let's hear it. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.840 This is in your favorite Huh Are you sure you 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:42.559 have a favorite? 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:44.760 I do. We're not there yet. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.600 Okay, all right, well this is my second favorite, the 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.880 mausoleum at Halikar Nassas. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.600 Okay, you don't like this one? 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:53.880 That was? 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.240 All right? Masoleums, I don't know. You see one, you 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:57.800 see them all? 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.800 Well, this is the original one. Like the word mausoleum 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:02.240 came from this structure. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.000 Yeah, that only goes so far with me. Oh, I 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.439 love that, the original thing. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.080 Yeah. I thought I thought you were like an etymology 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.440 kind of guy. Oh I can be, but just not 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.520 with mausoleum. 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:14.880 Yeah. I don't know. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.760 There's something about mausoleums that bugged. 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.080 Me because there's dead people interred inside. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.480 There's just a lot of a lot of hubbub for 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:24.400 a dead body. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.119 Oh I see, I see. Yeah that makes sense. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:29.120 You know. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:30.840 Yeah, I don't want to knock it though. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.480 Well, okay, we'll just stop right here. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.400 Then, if you're King Masulis, you deserve to to have 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.320 this named after you. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:41.040 I would say that, especially if you're married to your 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.520 sister and she's madly in love with you, and you've 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:44.080 just died. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.640 Yeah, that was a little weird. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.120 He was the Persian king of Karia, and he was 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:53.280 indeed married to his sister Artemisia. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.160 Yeah, and she. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.600 Really really was in love with her brother. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.920 Yeah and husband. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.640 And he was from what I understand, he seemed like 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:09.400 a pretty successful ruler. They had the mausoleum under construction 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.960 while he was still alive, and he died while before 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:18.200 it was finished, obviously, but his sister Artemisia, sister wife, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:23.160 Artemisia was so broken up by it. She said, all right, stop, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.440 stop what you're doing. This is not good enough. This 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.400 has to be the most amazing memorial anyone's ever made 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.960 to their husband. Brother. I've got to get in touch 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.080 with all of the greatest sculptors of the realm. And 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.200 she did. She got in touch with at least five 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.840 of the greatest sculptors alive at the time, and they 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.960 were headed by a guy named Pitheus, who not only 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.640 was one of the sculptors, he was the overseeing architect 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:54.840 of the entire project. 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.880 Yeah, so like he architected the whole thing. And then 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:01.720 she got a one sculptor per Si to embellish the 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:13.560 outside scope us Brexis, Reaxis, Leo, charis ole A, and Timothia. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:14.320 That one's easy. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.680 That one is easy, and this one has often been 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:22.600 called because she had all these different people working on it. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.680 And not only that, but I think for years afterward 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.680 it became a place where artists could exhibit and showcase 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.000 their work. So in the end this thing ended up 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.760 being I think, not as coherent is what you would 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.800 think something might be when you just hire one person 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:40.440 to work on it. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.800 For this episode and the last one, I went to 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.400 the site on museum. Have you ever heard of it? 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:47.160 Yeah? 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:47.680 I think so. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.640 They were very helpful in researching this. And one of 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.640 the things the way they put it was that so 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:58.160 during construction, Artemisia died before it was completed, and the 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.760 five sculptors who were running the show looked at each 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.840 other and they were like, let's keep going. We could 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.600 stop here and leave it unfinished. But it became don't 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.399 do that though, well no, no, not true. Ones. It 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:14.560 became a temple, a monument, not just to Mazillius and 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:18.320 Artemesia who were entombed inside, but it became a monument 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:19.560 to art as. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.480 Well, that we can do whatever we want now, guys. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.520 Right, And they did so, they went ahead and they 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.920 completed it, and it was a pretty impressive structure. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:28.840 Yeah. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.960 The structure yourself, was about one hundred and forty feet tall. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:33.080 Is that right? 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.480 Yeah, I believe though that's a relief. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:41.439 The base was about one hundred feet twenty four steps tall. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.719 Yeah, and then on either side of the steps, flanking 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.320 the steps were crouched lions, which is pretty cool. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:48.480 It's always cool. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.920 Around the outside of the second the second tier where 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.680 you would walk into on all four corners there were 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.439 soldiers bounded on horseback, sculptures of them protecting the place. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.240 Yeah. Yeah, what else? 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:09.520 Pliny the Elder said, this thing is four hundred and 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.080 forty feet and the perimeter the thing is four hundred 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:18.520 and forty feet So it was large, thirty six columns. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.960 It was a big structure, very impressive. I didn't get 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.800 from the pictures that I saw of renderings. It didn't 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.320 look too busy to me. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.880 No, I'm not sure. The only place I saw that 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.080 kind of shade being thrown at it was in this 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.280 house stuff Works article. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.440 Yeah, I mean I know that there were different people 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.560 working on it, but it didn't look like I expected 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.880 when I saw it to look. 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.840 Like a big mess, and it did not look like 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:43.440 a big mets. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.679 No, it looked pretty neat and tidy. Right, Yeah, So 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.640 one of the things that I love about this thing 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.160 so again, Ardemisia and Masilius are entombed inside this thing. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.640 But it's also like just a place you would go, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.959 you know, take a date or something on a Sunday 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:05.000 afternoon in the city of hell canisis Helicarnassis, Right, One 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:09.439 of the cool things about this is that this structure 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:15.280 stood for hundreds and hundreds of years after the city 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.879 of Helicarnassis fell to ruin around it. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.720 Yeah, that is so cool. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.600 Just the imagining this abandoned, ruined town and in the 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.000 middle of it is this one hundred and forty foot 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:31.119 tall mausoleum, the world's first mausoleum, with all these ornate 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.080 sculptures around it. This is almost completely out of context 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.760 with its surroundings now that the town is falling to ruin. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:39.120 Yeah, that is pretty cool for sure. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.040 But like all these other ones, earthquakes would eventually take 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.919 care of business in the fourteen hundreds and shake this 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:51.760 thing down and again, like a lot of these other stories, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.080 in fourteen ninety four, they used the Knights of Saint 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:59.840 John of Malta said hey, let's take all this scrap 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:01.800 and use it for our own castle. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:08.439 Yeah, a city as Helicarnassis fell to ruin. Another city 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.520 nearby grew up called Bodrum, and the ruins at Helericarnassus. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.679 You would go to Bodrum today to view the ruins 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.720 of Helicarnassis. The mausoleum, i should say, but the big 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.919 draw apparently is the Knights of Saint John's castle, and 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:25.880 to build that castle, some of the scraps that they 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.160