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Athens Page 6 |
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THE ACROPOLIS |
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The Acropolis is in Athens a hill , reserved to the gods, more particularly to the goddess Athena, the guardian of the city. Many temples, which were re-built after the second Medic wars, are to be found there. the Persians having destroyed the previous shrines. The works began in B.C.449 when Pericles had the Ecclesia vote the project of the re-building of a veritable marble town for the gods. Phidies, the great sculptor, carried out the works which went on for over twenty years. |
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Athena’s statue Athena’s altar Artemis’s
temple The path for the Panathenees’ procession
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the map of the Acropole in the Vth century B.C.