Hurwit: "Acropolis" means the high point of the city ... which is present in various dimensions of the building—the length of the stylobate [the platform that forms the base of the building ...
The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern Athens, is so integral to the texts of our history books—and the subtexts of our imaginations—that it is one of those ...
Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first ...
Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.
85.3 x 128.3 x 44.5 cm. (33.6 x 50.5 x 17.5 in.) ...
U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...
The use of the ratio 1:2.25 allowed the stylobate to fit easily within a slightly broader ... been more closely oriented east to west to connect to the only entrance of the Acropolis. Because of its ...