At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

An inscription identifies him as the architect of " the Temple of Nike " in the Sanctuary of Athena Nike on the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 35 ).

* The Temple of Goddess Athena on the Acropolis of Athens is sacked.

* A relief decoration from the parapet ( now destroyed ), Nike ( Victory ) adjusting her sandal is constructed in the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens and is ready in 407 BC.

* Callicrates starts to build the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens ( approximate date ).

Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, while the Athenian Senate commissions Callicrates to construct a temple to Athena Nike on the Acropolis.

" Hephaestion " is the name of the Temple of Hephaestus overlooking the Ancient Agora of Athens, near the Acropolis, a name which hardly appears at all in Macedon at this time period.

One of the most important religious sites in ancient Athens was the Temple of Athena, known today as the Parthenon, which stood on top of the Acropolis, where its evocative ruins still stand.

The Temple of Athena Nike ( Greek: Ναός Αθηνάς Νίκης ) is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens.

After three separate restorations the small Temple of Athena Nike / Apteros still stands on the Acropolis, together with the Erechtheum and the Parthenon, a survivor of antiquity.

Classical architecture continues along the path around the lake, with the " Temple of Flora ", a hidden summerhouse, and the " Temple of Daphne ", both reminiscent of a small temple on the Acropolis.

view of Temple of Olympian Zeus from Acropolis

Only some columns of the Sounion temple stand today, but intact it would have closely resembled the contemporary and well-preserved Temple of Hephaestus beneath the Acropolis, which may have been designed by the same architect.

The front door is modeled after the Erechtheion Temple on the Acropolis in Athens.

The neighborhoods of Plaka ( Πλάκα ), Monastiraki ( Μοναστηράκι ), Psiri ( Ψυρρή ) and Kolonaki ( Κολωνάκι ) are all within walking distance, and most of the famous sites of ancient Athens are nearby, including the Acropolis ( Ακρόπολις ), the Theater of Dionysus, the Areopagus, the Ancient Agora of Athens ( Αρχαία Αγορά των Αθηνών ) with Hadrian's Library, the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, the Arch of Hadrian ( Αψίς του Ανδριανού ), the Temple of Olympian Zeus ( Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός ), the Pnyx ( Πνύκα ), the Philopappos Monument ( Μνημείο του Φιλοπάππου ) on the Hill of the Nymphs, the Kerameikos Cemetery ( Νεκροταφείο Κεραμικού ), the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( Μνημείο του Αγνώστου Στρατιώτη ) and Lycabettus Hill.

Apollo Temple at the Acropolis of Rhodes.

Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos (" Aphrodite of all the People ") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.

Pausanias reports that after the unification of Athens, Theseus set up a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos and Peitho on the south slope of Acropolis at Athens.

The agora, the Acropolis, the island of Cranae ( Marathonisi ) where Paris on his way to Troy celebrated his nuptials with Beautiful Helen after taking her from Sparta, the Migonium or precinct of Aphrodite Migonitis ( occupied by the modern town ), and the hill Larysium ( Koumaro ) rising above it.

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

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.

During the festival, a procession ( believed to be depicted on the Parthenon frieze ) traveled through the city via the Panathenaic Way and culminated on the Acropolis.

In ancient Greece, the Acropolis ( literally: " peak of the city "), placed on a commanding eminence, was important in the life of the people, serving as a refuge and stronghold in peril and containing military and food supplies, the shrine of the god and a royal palace.

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.

The race then traveled to the heart of the city, where it kindled the sacrificial fire on the altar of Athena on the Acropolis to conclude the festival.

The Older or Pre-Parthenon, as it is frequently referred to, was still under construction when the Persians sacked the city in 480 BC and razed the Acropolis.

tell | Tepe of the Royal city ( left ) and of the Acropolis ( right ), seen from the Hill mound of the Apadana.

* Acropolis, ' high city ' — upper part of a polis, often citadel and / or site of major temple ( s ).

* Acropolis (" high city "), Athens, Greece ( this is the most well-known example of acropolis ; in fact an acropolis area was part of almost every ancient Greek polis and it was more like a function-part of an ancient polis ( like e. g. agora, walls, etc.

In 1204, he defended the Athenian Acropolis from attack by Leo Sgouros, holding out until the arrival of the Crusaders in 1205, to whom he surrendered the city.

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

Megacles was convicted of killing Cylon ( who had taken refuge on the Acropolis as a suppliant of Athena ) and was exiled from the city, along with all the other members of his genos, the Alcmaeonidae.

The site on which Athens stands was first inhabited in the Neolithic period, perhaps as a defensible settlement on top of the Acropolis (' high city '), around the end of the fourth millennium BC or a little later.

The Agora, the commercial and social centre of the city, lay about north of the Acropolis, in what is now the Monastiraki district.

The city was sacked by the Heruli in AD 267, resulting in the burning of all the public buildings, the plundering of the lower city and the damaging of the Agora and Acropolis.

After this the city to the north of the Acropolis was hastily refortified on a smaller scale, with the Agora left outside the walls.

In 1822, a Greek insurgency captured the city, but it fell to the Ottomans again in 1826 ( though Acropolis held till June 1827 ).

At that time, the city ( as throughout the Ottoman period ) had a small population of an estimated 400 houses, mostly located around the Acropolis in the Plaka.

Downwards in the Acropolis, the central city is placed.

The Prytaneum, mentioned by Pausanias, and probably the original center of the ancient city, was situated somewhere east of the northern cliff of the Acropolis.

Many authorities hold that the original Prytaneum of the Cecropian city must have been on the Acropolis.