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.

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

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

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

In subsequent years, the Acropolis was a site of bustling human activity with many Byzantine, Frankish, and Ottoman structures.

The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea.

The project included collection and identification of all stone fragments, even small ones, from the Acropolis and its slopes and the attempt was made to restore as much as possible using reassembled original material-with new marble from Mount Penteli used sparingly.

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.

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.

When they were together one day on the Acropolis of Athens, Perdix was asking Daedalus about his son who had died, Icarus.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

" Indeed, olive suckers sprout readily from the stump, and the great age of some existing olive trees shows that it was perfectly possible that the olive tree of the Acropolis dated to the Bronze Age.

Some thought that it was a recommendation to fortify the Acropolis with a wooden fence and make a stand there.

In the event, variations of all three interpretations were attempted: some barricaded the Acropolis, the civilian population was evacuated over sea to nearby Salamis Island and to Troizen, and the war fleet fought victoriously at Salamis Bay.

Pergamon's library on the Acropolis ( the ancient Library of Pergamum ) was the second best in the ancient Greek civilization.

Three kilometers south of the Acropolis, down in the valley, there was the Sanctuary of Asclepius ( also known as the Asclepieion ), the god of healing.

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.

James Cubitt, a British architect, who firmly believed that the Parthenon Marbles, as integral architectural members of a unique and internationally valuable monument, should be assembled together in a museum as close to the Acropolis as possible.

The Arrephoroi were girls ages seven to eleven who served as acolytes of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis and were charged with conducting unique rituals.

Someone has planted 24 bombs at famous tourist sites ( the Sphinx and Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, and two cityscapes resembling Miami Beach and Hollywood, which appear only as screen backgrounds rather than unique game locations ).

It is unique worldwide because its external cladding of white pentelikon marble is the same marble used in construction of the Parthenon and the other buildings in the Acropolis.

In the 1990 season, Sainz drove his GT-Four to victory at the Acropolis Rally, at the Rally New Zealand, at the 1000 Lakes Rally, as the first non-Nordic driver, and at the RAC Rally, claiming his first world drivers ' title, ahead of Lancia's Didier Auriol and Kankkunen, ending the Italian marque's domination of the drivers ' world championship since the advent of the Group A era of the sport in 1987.

This position may well have resulted from its central location in the Greek world, its secure stronghold on the Acropolis and its access to the sea, which gave it a natural advantage over inland rivals such as Thebes and Sparta.

The Acropolis Rally has been held for 51 years by the Greek motorsports organization Automobile and Touring Club of Greece ( ELPA ), making it one of the longest-standing in world rallying.

Due to the nature of the rally, with a mix of rough, twisty mountain stages and coupled with blistering heat and choking dust, the Acropolis Rally is one of the toughest on the world rally circuit.

When the Chorus of Men encounter the Chorus of Women near the north-western edge of the Acropolis they ridicule the women, " I warrant, now, if twice or thrice we slap their faces neatly, That they will learn, like Bupalus, to hold their tongues discreetly.

It is not clear if it had been a drunken accident, or a deliberate act of revenge for the burning of the Acropolis of Athens during the Second Greco-Persian War.

( Associate of the Royal Academy ) on 7 November 1808, an R. A. ( Royal Academician ) on 11 February 1811, his diploma work consisting of a drawing of a reconstruction of the Acropolis of Athens.

He was at work on the second edition when in March 1995, while traveling in Greece with his wife Ewa, a chemical engineer, he suffered a fatal accident on the Acropolis in Athens.

Recent critics such as Andrew Szegedy-Maszak ( in Antiquity and Photography, Getty Museum, 2005 ) have argued that Stillman's photography, especially an album of views of the Athenian Acropolis, displayed an artistic sensibility and a genius of a higher order than the rest of his work.

Archaeological work done at Copán in 2000 excavated the tomb considered to be that of K ' inich Yax K ' uk ' Mo under the Acropolis.

This settlement was moved to the top of the Acropolis in the Middle Helladic period ( 2000-1600 BC ), because the plain was flooded by the nearby lagoon.

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.

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

The buildings of the Acropolis suffered significant damage during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War.

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

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 ).