Ancient AthensMacmillan, 1902 - 579 pages |
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... TOWN a . Two NOTES ON THUCYDIDES II . 13. 6 CHAPTER III THE ACROPOLIS BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS CHAPTER IV THE TOWN BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS a . NOTE ON THUCYDIDES II . 15. 3,4 • 29 • 6385 36 68 73 888 141 CHAPTER V EARLY ATTIC ART 152 ...
... TOWN a . Two NOTES ON THUCYDIDES II . 13. 6 CHAPTER III THE ACROPOLIS BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS CHAPTER IV THE TOWN BEFORE THE PERSIAN WARS a . NOTE ON THUCYDIDES II . 15. 3,4 • 29 • 6385 36 68 73 888 141 CHAPTER V EARLY ATTIC ART 152 ...
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... towns of Greece . It is grouped around the defensible citadel of the Acropolis , which according to Thucydides formed , with its immediate surroundings , the whole town in early times . This rock is situated in the midst of the plain ...
... towns of Greece . It is grouped around the defensible citadel of the Acropolis , which according to Thucydides formed , with its immediate surroundings , the whole town in early times . This rock is situated in the midst of the plain ...
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... town that , in case of any hostile approach , there was time enough to PENTELICUS IN WINTER , FROM NEAR CYNOSARGES . warn the inhabitants of the plain to take refuge in the citadel . An attack by land was almost equally well guarded ...
... town that , in case of any hostile approach , there was time enough to PENTELICUS IN WINTER , FROM NEAR CYNOSARGES . warn the inhabitants of the plain to take refuge in the citadel . An attack by land was almost equally well guarded ...
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... town must always have been a difficult matter for its rulers . The two chief streams of the Athenian plain are , as is well known , the Ilissus and the Cephisus . But the Cephisus , though it irrigates the olive groves that were among ...
... town must always have been a difficult matter for its rulers . The two chief streams of the Athenian plain are , as is well known , the Ilissus and the Cephisus . But the Cephisus , though it irrigates the olive groves that were among ...
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... town , and in part also by the ancient , and flowed out through the narrow gap in the city wall to the south of the Dipylon Gate . In later times this stream , like the Fleet Ditch of London , was practically the main drain of the town ...
... town , and in part also by the ancient , and flowed out through the narrow gap in the city wall to the south of the Dipylon Gate . In later times this stream , like the Fleet Ditch of London , was practically the main drain of the town ...
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A. W. Mansell Acropolis Agora Alcamenes altar ancient Apollo architectural Areopagus artistic Athenian Athens Attic bronze building built Callirrhoe cave cella centre Ceramicus Cimon columns decoration dedicated Dionysus Dipylon Dipylon Gate earlier early temple east Enneacrunus Erechtheum evidence extant fifth century figures foundations frieze FRIEZE OF PARTHENON front goddess Greece Greek Hadrian harbour hill identified Ilissus inscription Ionic Ionic order Lapith later Long Walls Mansell & Sons marble metopes modern monuments Munychia Nike Odeum Olympieum painted Parthenon Pausanias pediment Pericles permission of Messrs Persian Wars Phaleric Phalerum Phidias Piræus Piraic Pisistratus Pnyx portico Posidon position precinct probably Professor Dörpfeld Propylæa Prytaneum Pythium relief remains represented restored rock sacred scene sculpture seated seen shrine side slabs slope Stoa Stoa Basileios temple of Athena Theatre Themistocles Theseum Thucydides tion tomb town traces vases west pediment Zeus ἐν καὶ τοῦ