魅力無限的世界十大古都(組圖)

       在西方人的眼中，世界十大古都是哪些城市呢？報道稱，國外評選出的這十座城市中，有的可能已經(jīng)位于廢墟之下，但在當年輝煌之時，這些名城的確在世界上占著舉足輕重的地位。

羅馬

　　1.Rome

　　It's impossible to strollthrough modern Rome and not bump intoreminders of its ancient past. The Forum, the Colosseum and the Pantheon, just to name a few, are lasting testaments to the capital of an empire once made up of 2.5 million square miles, three continents and about 100 million people. The empire reached its zenithin 117 AD, when the emperor Trajan ruled from Rome and months-long gladiator games were held to celebrate the city's glory。

　　古羅馬

　　即便徜徉在現(xiàn)代的羅馬城里，你也無法不被它的歷史遺跡所震撼。古羅馬廣場、圓形大劇場和萬神殿都是古羅馬曾經(jīng)風光無限的有力證據(jù)。這座曾經(jīng)占地 250萬平方英里的都城由3塊陸地組成，人口達到1億。公元117年羅馬帝國盛極一時，羅馬皇帝圖拉真曾舉行長達數(shù)月的格斗表演以慶祝帝國的輝煌。
 

雅典

　　2.Athens

　　Democracy, math, philosophy, the Olympics…what didn't come out of Athens, the ethereal capital of ancient Greece? Athens fought long and hard, in conflicts on the sea and on land, to become leader of all Aegean city-states by the early 5th century BC. It celebrated its victories by building great temples like the Parthenon, theiconicsymbol of art and architecture in ancient Greece. A plague—likely typhoid fever—contributed to the empire's fall。　　

        雅典

　　民主政治、數(shù)學、哲學、奧林匹克……還有什么輝煌成就不是出自古希臘首都雅典的呢？公元前5世紀，雅典經(jīng)過海洋和陸地長期艱苦的征戰(zhàn)成為愛琴海霸主。為慶祝勝利，雅典修建了帕臺農(nóng)等偉大的神廟，是祭祀女神雅典娜的主要神廟。

君士坦丁堡

　　3.Constantinople

　　Today it's shared by two continents as the Turkish city of Istanbul， but ancient Constantinople never once had to share the spotlightafter Rome fell from grace in the 4th century AD. From that date through the Middle Ages， Constantinople was the world's largest and richest city， becoming the center of the new Roman Empire， the ByzantineEmpire and finally the Ottoman Empire. Art and learning flourished in its universities and cathedrals， including the spectacular Hagia Sophia。

　　君士坦丁堡

　　君士坦丁堡就是現(xiàn)在的土耳其城市伊斯坦布爾。它曾是世界上最大最富裕的城市，曾是拜占庭帝國和后來土耳其帝國的中心。君士坦丁堡的藝術和文化教育在當時的學校和教堂相當興盛。