📚 2 Books mentioned in "Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW" of Stuff You Should Know
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Episode: Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
Published on June 23, 2024
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Bible
I did see that Ephesus was an important city in the Bible because I think Paul came and was preaching there and started a riot because everybody's like, 'Oh man, your God sounds so great that it's going to undermine our Emis, and our local economy is going to fall to pieces.'
The podcast hosts discuss the Bible in relation to Ephesus, mentioning that Paul's preaching there led to a significant uproar due to concerns that it threatened local religious practices and economic stability.
History
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And then there's another guy, Herodotus, he was a historian from Greece; he wrote basically a monograph on Babylon a hundred years after Nebuchadnezzar, and he didn't mention the Hanging Gardens at all.
In this segment, the hosts discuss the historian Herodotus and his writings about Babylon. They argue that the absence of the Hanging Gardens in his account might suggest they never existed, as he wrote a monograph on the subject a century after Nebuchadnezzar.