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Acropolis of Athens
During ancient Greek times, cities were built high up on cliffs and hills, and were known as an acropolis. This was done primarily as a means of city defense. The most famous of these was the Acropolis of Athens. It still stands today, and is listed as an UNESCO world heritage site. The Parthenon and the Old Temple of Athena are both located in the Acropolis of Athens.
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What the Acropolis made out of?
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The Acropolis is late Cretaceous limestone, and it's part of a ridge of this material that cuts through the area.
What the Acropolis might have looked like?
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Acropolis looks like most Greek temples.
It was once a church and then a mosque and now it's just a temple.
Why should you protect the acropolis?
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The Greeks allowed it to deteriorate for two centuries, recently pollution wasted away the facades and statues, and its degradation threatened the historic building becoming piles of junk. It needed a dramatic reversal of this, and that is still in its early stages.
How is the Acropolis changing over time?
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It started as a monarchy, became an oligarchy, then turned to tyranny, then experimented with democracy, reverted to oligarchy, returned to democracy, then developed radical democracy.
Where is Acropolis of Athens located?
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The acropolis is the walls of Athens. To answer your question, it is surrounds Athens.
What was Parthenon's main function?
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It was the temple of Athena, the patron goddess of the city that was named after her.
Why was the acropolis important part of the city states?
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I honestly do not know exactly why it was so important to the Greeks, but I think I know why it is generally important to us... It is because of the statues of the women and its age. I hope this is helpful for some people! :)
What are Athena's significant actions or crimes?
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Turning Medussa into a woman with snake hair and the body of a snake.
What type of architecture does the acropolis belong to?
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The Ionic and Doric orders of architecture.
Why is the Acropolis of Athens a wonder of the world?
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UNESCO's World Heritage mission is to:
- encourage countries to sign the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of their natural and cultural heritage;
- encourage States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List;
- encourage States Parties to establish management plans and set up reporting systems on the state of conservation of their World Heritage sites;
- help States Parties safeguard World Heritage properties by providing technical assistance and professional training;
- provide emergency assistance for World Heritage sites in immediate danger;
- support States Parties' public awareness-building activities for World Heritage conservation;
- encourage participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage;
- encourage international cooperation in the conservation of our world's cultural and natural heritage.
Which Greek gods temple is the Acropolis?
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Athena the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy
When did the Greek start using the acropolis?
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The Acropolis was completed in about 499 B.C. It was completed just after the death of Pericles.
Where is the most famous acropolis?
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The Acropolis of Athens is the most famous acropolis.
What is the acropolis above?
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An acropolis is a hill in Greece which means "upper city". When a city-state was formed, a hill was fortified as a refuge during attack - it contained a temple of the patron god/goddess and the settlement's valuables were stored there under protection of the deity. As the area developed, a city grew up around it, often walled. The acropolis of Athens came to have several temples, one of which is the Parthenon (parthenos = the virgin Athena, patron goddess) where the treasury was located under her protection and her statue presided.
Is the Parthenon a public place?
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Like all temples the Parthenon was a place of worship, though it may have been used more primarily by priests, while the majority would visit smaller shrines. The Parthenon is comparable to a cathedral in many ways.
When was the Acropolis made?
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14th century BC
Mid 5th century BC the ruins of the Persian Greek wars were removed and the Athens Acropolis was build and stayed as we know the monument today.
Who was the artist that was in charge of the rebuilding of the Acropolis?
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Athens great general Perikles
What is the famous temple to Athena in the Acropolis?
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The Parthenon, dedicated to Athena Parthenos = Athena virgin.
Why was the Acropolis in Greece blown up?
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It stood mainly intact until the 16th Century when, during the Venetian attack on athens, an wonderful French artillery officer with the Venetians demonstrated his skill by lobbing a shel into the roof of the Parthenon. It his a Turkish gunpowder magazine inside and blew up the roof.
In the early 19th Century, visiting Lord Elgin paid Turkish officials to let him take the marble statues which had fallen on the ground home with him to England, which saved many of them from the fate of those left behind.
In the 20th Century the Greek government ignored the buildings and the acid rains caused by rampant pollution ate away the remaining statues, which lost their faces. Following international outcry, these were hidden away in a warehouse and replaced by copies of the ones in England taken by Lord Elgin. The cries by Greece for return of the Elgin marbles should be looked at in this context - the Greeks call for return of their heritage, but what remains intact is a result of their removal in the bad old days.
