Visiting Acropolis part 5 Parthenon my first time

Visiting Acropolis part 5 Parthenon my first time

Acropolis part 5 my first time at Parthenon 
2017 after a trip to Naxos island

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After the Athenians defeated the Persians at Marathon, in 490 BC,
 they began building a very large temple, the so-called Pre-Parthenon.
 This temple was still unfinished when the Persians invaded Attica in 480 BC,
 pillaged the Acropolis and set fire to its monuments.
 The Athenians buried the surviving sculptures and votive offerings inside natural cavities
 of the sacred rock, thus forming artificial terraces, and fortified the Acropolis with two new walls,
 the wall of Themistokles along the northern side and that of Kimon on the south.
 Several architectural elements of the ruined temples were 
incorporated in the northern wall and are still visible today.

In the mid-fifth century BC, when the Acropolis became the seat of the Athenian League
 and Athens was the greatest cultural centre of its time, 
Perikles initiated an ambitious building project which 
lasted the entire second half of the fifth century BC. 
Athenians and foreigners alike worked on this project, receiving a salary of one drachma a day. 
The most important buildings visible on the Acropolis today - that is, the Parthenon,
 the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the Τemple of Athena Nike, 
were erected during this period under the supervision of the greatest architects,
 sculptors and artists of their time. 

The temples on the north side of the Acropolis housed primarily
 the earlier Athenian cults and those of the Olympian gods, 
while the southern part of the Acropolis was dedicated to the cult of Athena in her many qualities: 
as Polias (patron of the city), Parthenos, Pallas,
 Promachos (goddess of war), Ergane (goddess of manual labour) and Nike (Victory).






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