Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Acropolis of Athens" ¶ 92
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Acropolis and Athens
: For the most famous example of an Acropolis, see Acropolis of Athens.
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 of Athens as seen from Mount Lycabettus ( northeast ).
Category: Acropolis of Athens
Reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, Leo von Klenze, 1846
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 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.
Under the Latin Duchy of Athens, the Acropolis functioned as the city's administrative center, with the Parthenon as its cathedral, and the Propylaia as part of the Ducal Palace.
Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens showing the major archaeological remains
Image: AcropolisatathensSitePlan. png | right | 600px | alt = Site plan of the Acropolis at Athens
* The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek Government website )
* UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Acropolis, Athens
* Interactive 3D of Acropolis, Athens
* The Acropolis of Athens: photo album and description
* Timelapse video of Acropolis during Earth Hour 2010 Timelapse showing how the Acropolis of Athens switched off & on the lights during Earth Hour 2010
simple: Acropolis of Athens
During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).
In 1806, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the Parthenon, on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK.

Acropolis and Reconstruction
Reconstruction of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis of Athens | Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
Reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areus Pagus in Athens, Leo von Klenze, 1846

Acropolis and by
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.
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.
Acropolis is also the term used by archaeologists and historians to the urban Castro culture settlements located in Northwestern Iberian hilltops.
The ruins of Amphipolis as seen by E. Cousinéry in 1831: the bridge over Strymon, the city fortifications and the Acropolis.
However, if there was such a palace, it seems to have been supplanted by later building activity on the Acropolis.
The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.
Kerameikos () is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ( Δίπυλον ) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.
* A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis by Oscar Broneer
Notable works of the school still extant are the famous archaic female statues found on the Athenian Acropolis in 1885 – 1887, the seated statues of Branchidae, the Nike of Archermus found at Delos, and the objects in ivory and electrum found by D. G.
Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter, which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with the Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe ( but, again, including a mushroom cloud ).
Apparently Julian had had an " experience up the Acropolis " and a tale about " Bognor " had apparently been divulged by Julian after he had " been at the gin ".
A close-up view of the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's " Great Stone Church ," dubbed by architects the " American Acropolis " in reference to its classical Greco-Roman style.
These two settlements, called Acropolis ( 7 ha ) and Apadana ( 6. 3 ha ) by archeologists, would later merge to form Susa proper ( 18 ha ).
Another theory published in an article in 2008 by Ursula Vedder suggests that the Colossus was never in the port, but rather was part of the Acropolis of Rhodes, on a hill today named Monte Smith, which overlooks the port area.
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.
* The Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens is completed by Ictinus and Callicrates and is consecrated after 9 years of construction.
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.
He also mentions in another account she was taken by Boreas not along the Ilissos, but from the Areopagus, a rock outcropping near the Acropolis where murderers were tried.
They looked, and terrified by the two serpents Athena had set within to guard the child, they fled in terror and lept from the Acropolis to their deaths.
* Pyrrhus of Athens, 5th century BC sculptor mentioned by Pliny and an epigraphe in Acropolis
During the early 20th century, archaeological excavations conducted by the Italian Archaeological School and by the American Classical School on the Athenian Acropolis and on other sites within Attica revealed Neolithic dwellings, tools, pottery and skeletons from domesticated animals ( i. e. sheep, fish ).

0.140 seconds.