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Citadel of an ancient Greek town
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acropolis
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acropolis \A*crop"o*lis\, n. [Gr. 'akro`polis; 'a`kros extreme + po`lis city.] The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latinized form of Greek akropolis "citadel" (especially that of Athens), from akros "highest, upper" (see acrid ) + polis in its older sense of "citadel; enclosed space, often on high ground" (see polis ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20Greece; compare (term Acropolis English).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An acropolis (; from akros or akron , "highest", "topmost", "outermost" and polis , "city"; plural in English: acropoles , acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement , especially a citadel , built upon an area of elevated ground—frequently a hill with ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the citadel in ancient Greek towns
Usage examples of acropolis.
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.
It too was a prosperous and fairly large city, dominated by the temple precinct and palace atop a small acropolis, dreaming alongside its wide calm inlet.
At the mouth of the Caicus River their ship turned into it, and so they came to Pergamum, a few miles inland, by exactly that route which showed the city to best advantage, high on its acropolis, and surrounded by tall mountains.
Even in the lower town sprawled around the base of the acropolis there were no narrow alleyways or tumbledown blocks of apartments, for everything was obviously subject to a rigid system of surveys and building codes.
Pulling his sweating beast to a halt, he scanned the rising tiers of streets in search of an acropolis or citadel of some kind, and saw what he presumed to be the palace lying on the mountain flank at the rear of the city.
What scene was exhibited from the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the temples of Hercules, and Theseus, and the Winds?
There is, in fact, no building on earth which can sustain the burden of such greatness, and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing.
Pausanias saw it, the Acropolis was covered with statues, as well as with shrines.
But I do think that the museum on the Acropolis should be provided with a better set of casts of the figures than those which are now to be seen there.
There is nothing more delightful than to descend from the Acropolis, and rest awhile in the comfortable marble arm-chairs with which the front row of the circuit is occupied.
Society at Athens from 1883 to 1889 have laid bare the entire surface of the Acropolis, and shed an unexpected light upon the early history of Attic art.
Of the walls of the cella and opisthodomos nothing remains, but the foundations of this part are made of the hard blue limestone of the Acropolis, while the foundations of the outer part are of reddish-gray limestone from the Peiraieus.
In any case, however, his accuracy in detail is hardly to be accepted without question, especially in his description of the Acropolis, where he has to try his prentice hand upon a material far too great for him.
Certainly, if there had been a second chryselephantine statue of Athena on the Acropolis, we should know of its existence.
Even granting that we know the exact level of the surface of the Acropolis in classical times at every point, we certainly do not know all the objects--votive offerings and the like--set up in various places.