Author: F. Fariello

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The paper aims to illustrate some cases of the reception of Greek and Hellenistic cultural heritage, in particular, of two monuments considered part of the Seven Wonders of the ancient World: the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Colossus of Rhodes, through a comparative analysis between Chinese sources and the “sources of the Chinese sources”: with special attention to the Greek and Roman sources, which constituted the first bibliography of Chinese narratives about the West.