How To Use acropolis In A Sentence
- It was replanned in marble after the battle of Marathon in 490 bc, but it was not constructed in its final form until 447-432 BC when it became the centre-piece of Pericles' scheme for the Acropolis.
- Editor's Note: actually from the acropolis all you can see is athens… and that wont impress anybody…
- Nowhere was it more wounded than in the tree-lined avenue that runs around the Acropolis. Times, Sunday Times
- Furthermore just such cyma pieces have been discovered belonging to other structures in Olympia and amid the pre-Persian ruins on the Acropolis of Athens. The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
- That is, the interpretation of the Acropolis as an archetypal composition of primary building types: the Parthenon, a trabeated temple (columns and beams), and the Erechtheum, a building composed of walls.
- For if we abolish the acropolis which is in the city, can we abolish also that of fever, and that of beautiful women? The Discourses of Epictetus
- Outstanding buildings constructed in the 5th-century rebirth of Athens include the PARTHENON and Erechtheum on the acropolis.
- While, therefore, the majority of the Indian workmen were kept employed at the cemeteries, Kopeli, the Snake chief, a man in whom I have great confidence, was assigned to the excavation of a series of rooms at the highest point of the ruin, previously referred to as the acropolis Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
- During this week, we discovered a third defense system down slope from the fortification wall, part from the normal city wall and the circuit wall surrounding the Zencirli Tepe (the "acropolis" with a height of 1784 m.a.s.l.). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Tepe Düzen Report 3
- The Acropolis shows a maturity of Greek mathematics and also an appreciation of geometrical ideas.
