The temple of the Akropolisburnt by the Persians, 1 Fastigium in Pliny, N.
A History of the Akropolis of Athens, 473 PATON, (J.
As the gorge under the akropolisof Mykene at once suggests the gorge of Cheddar, so the basin of the Trebenitza at Ombla suggests, though the scale is larger, the basin of the Axe at Wookey Hole.
But to the left of the present wall, where the hill soars, one stage upon another, far above the height of Durazzo that now is, we must surely place the site of the akropolis of the old Korkyraian settlers.
The same anomaly in scale occurred in the Akropolis at Athens, where the vast figure of Athene Promachos must have reduced the beautiful Caryatides of the Erechtheum to insignificance.
The Akropolis was just a collection of unrelated buildings, and in the great Temenos of Delphi the various monuments were all anyhow.
This, however, is not the case, as may be seen by comparing this fragment with the capital of the temple of Nike Apteros in Ross, Akropolis von Athen, pls.
He who restored Akropolis the theft, Himself may feel perhaps a timely twinge At thought of certain other crowns he filched From--who now visits Herakles the Judge.
The archaic pedimental sculpture of poros which is now in the Acropolis Museum (Wiegand, Porosarchitektur der Akropolis zu Athen, Taf.
The Moretolian akropolis, like some others, was not an akropolis in the literal sense, for the good reason that the point of most value for military purposes was not the most lofty.
And there is no doubt that this akropolis had its own circuit of wall, distinct from that of the lower town.
The hill of the Eleusinian akropolis forms a long irregular ridge, rising in the greater part of its course close above the bay, but running a little inland at the point where it becomes an akropolis.
That belief, as well as many other kindred beliefs, may be well unlearned on theakropolis of Tiryns.
But the akropolisof Mykene, though we find it to be in a manner isolated, when we come to it, seems like an outpost of the far loftier hills immediately behind it.
It is impossible to study Greece in strict chronological order, unless we could anyhow drop from the clouds on the akropolis of Mykene.
As we draw near, the height and outline of a great part of the outer wall of the akropolis are utterly hidden, the general view is spoiled, the proportion of the whole work is sadly damaged, because Dr.
The blind fury of the destroyer has decreed that the history of Athens shall no longer be read on the akropolis of Athens.
It is a town which might have stood anywhere else, built at the foot of the ancient akropolis and around the churches of Eirene.
The hills of Tiryns, Mykene, and Kleonai, the Athenian akropolis itself, are as nothing to the Larissa of Argos; but the Argive height itself yields utterly to the great Corinthian steep.
But for this last fact, it would be easy to account for the difference in the hue of the columns by the difference between the pure sea-air of Sounion and the air of an akropolis rising above a great city.
On the Athenian akropolis there are blocks ruder than those of Tiryns itself, but they are hidden by the great works of more polished days.
It is something to stand on the akropolis of Kyme, and to feel that its very desolation has in sort brought things back to their ancient state.
The ally or the enemy was close at the door; there was not even any need to climb up an akropolis to see what was coming in the way of attack or deliverance.
And the akropolis of Assisi is a mere fortress; even if it was the primitive place of shelter, it cannot have been inhabited for many ages.
As at Mykene, while the akropolis is high enough, there is something far higher rising immediately above it.
We are in the heart of forsaken Fidenae, in the pass which divides its soaring akropolis by the river from the body of the city on the inland side.
They wished at last to possess an Akropolislike the Egyptians, who had so many, or the Greeks, Persians, Assyrians and Babylonians.
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