Acropolis

/əˈkɹɒpəlɪs/

"Acropolis" in a Sentence (7 examples)

The Acropolis' staircase had 60 steps.

The Parthenon is located inside the Acropolis of Athens.

The temple of Athena Nike is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens.

The Erechtheion is a temple located inside the Acropolis of Athens.

Life-size 3D printing of the Acropolis has enabled the creation of reproductions around this world.

In Athens' central Monastiraki Square, in the shadow of the Acropolis, 51-year-old Konstantinos Polychronopoulos stirs a large pot of chicken stew as other volunteers ready plates and cutlery at the self-styled "Social Kitchen."

The Etruscans, then, appear in general as an industrious people ( φιλότεχνον ἔθνος), of a bold and lofty spirit of enterprise, which was greatly favoured by their priestly aristocratic constitution. Massive walls, mostly of irregular blocks, surround their cities (not merely their acropoleis); the art of protecting the country from inundations by the construction of canals, and outlets from lakes, was very zealously practised by them.

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