Octo Mundi Miracula

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/octo-mundi-miracula

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the series title?Octo Mundi Miracula
2. What is the publication date?1572
3. Why does the Octo Mundi Miracula show eight wonders instead of seven?The artist Maarten van Heemskerck added the Colosseum because he liked it, so the book has eight images.
4. Who added poems to the Octo Mundi Miracula?Hadrianus Junius wrote short elegiac couplets that go with each engraving.

Engraving: A printmaking technique where a design is incised into a metal plate or block, then inked and pressed onto paper.
Canonical: Relating to a set of works or texts that are widely accepted as authoritative or standard.
Elegiac Couplet: A pair of successive rhyming lines of verse, typically in iambic pentameter, often used for themes of lament or reflection.
Classical Antiquity: The period of history spanning from the earliest Greek poetry to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, roughly 8th century BCE to 5th century CE.