The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

There is no conclusive evidence for the existence of a Mycenean palace on top of the Athenian Acropolis.

After the battle, a sacred precinct was established for Pan in a grotto on the north slope of the Acropolis, and a sacrifice was annually offered.

The first endeavor to build a sanctuary for Athena Parthenos on the site of the present Parthenon was begun shortly after the Battle of Marathon ( c. 490 – 488 BC ) upon a muscular limestone foundation that extended and leveled the southern part of the Acropolis summit.

Some of the financial accounts for the Parthenon survive and show that the largest single expense was transporting the stone from Mount Pentelicus, about 16 kilometres from Athens, to the Acropolis.

* Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena ( the Parthenon ) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.

In Athens, a small seating section at the Theatre of Dionysus was reserved for priesthoods of " Hestia on the Acropolis, Livia, and Julia ", and of " Hestia Romaion " (" Roman Hestia ", thus " The Roman Hearth " or Vesta ).

Caryatids are found at the treasuries at Delphi and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens for Athene.

Victories were achieved in 1973 on Elba for overall and class, Acropolis for class ( 5th overall ), Austrian championship 1972, 1973 January Rallye for overall and class.

King Sisyphus also betrayed one of Zeus's secrets by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( an Asopides who was taken away by Zeus ) in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian Acropolis.

In these tales Asopus discovers the truth about the abduction from Sisyphus, King of Corinth in return for creating a spring on the Corinthian Acropolis.

In the contest for patronship of Athens between Poseidon and Athena, the salt spring on the Acropolis where Poseidon's trident struck was known as the sea of Erechtheus.

Shrines were constructed for Herse and Aglauros on the Acropolis.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

The Areopagus or Areios Pagos () is the " Rock of Ares ", north-west of the Acropolis, which in classical times functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases in Athens.

* The reconstruction of the Acropolis of Athens, the marble city for the glory of the gods.

Mythologically, Lycabettus is credited to Athena, who created it when she dropped a mountain she had been carrying from Pallene for the construction of the Acropolis after the box holding Erichthonius was opened.

Good pace in Portugal and taking third place on the Acropolis Rally at least appeared to mark a turnaround in the quality of the younger Solberg's results, although even Greek event wasn't problem-free for the Norwegian as he experienced some damper problems.

These included a torch race from the Piraeus to the Acropolis ( the supposed ancestor of the modern Olympic torch relay that takes place prior to the Games, though in reality the modern torch race was invented as propaganda for Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ), mock infantry and cavalry battles, a javelin throw on horseback, the apobatai ( a chariot race in which the driver had to jump out of the chariot, run alongside, and jump back in ), the pyrriche ( apparently military exercises accompanied by music ), and the euandrion ( essentially a beauty contest among the athletes ).

" The Athenian Acropolis ", Cambridge University Press

* Acropolis of Athens, Full Reconstruction, animation by the Technological Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, on YouTube

press, " Food Remains from Area X ", in Kochavi, M., Gadot, Y. and Yadin, E. ( eds ), Aphek II: The Acropolis, Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, in press, pp. ?-?

Two young students, Apostolos Santas, a law student, and Manolis Glezos, a student at the Athens University of Economics and Business, secretly climbed the northwest face of the Acropolis and tore down the swastika banner which had been placed there by the occupation authorities.

In the late afternoon Mando came back to fetch us, and we drove to the Acropolis.

Don't worry about the Acropolis.

Another beautiful building is the Propylaea, the entrance gate of the Acropolis.

On the way out Mr. Sakellariadis detoured up a special hill from which one may obtain a matchless view of the Acropolis lighted by night.

Renan's 1862 biography of Jesus had denied his divinity, and he had written the " Prayer on the Acropolis " addressed to the goddess Athena.

: For the most famous example of an Acropolis, see Acropolis of Athens.

Acropolis is also the term used by archaeologists and historians to the urban Castro culture settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.

The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens, which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it ( most notably the Parthenon ), is known without qualification as the Acropolis.

The Acropolis, the Temple of Aphrodite, the market, the city ’ s walls, the basilica and the port have all been excavated.

The ruins of Amphipolis as seen by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over Strymon, the city fortifications and the Acropolis.

It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.

The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.

The Areopagus as viewed from the Acropolis.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as " The Acropolis " without qualification.

The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.

The Acropolis is located on a flat-topped rock that rises above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface area of about 3 hectares.

However, if there was such a palace, it seems to have been supplanted by later building activity on the Acropolis.