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Visiting Acropolis part 8 Propylaea my first time


Visiting Acropolis part 8 Propylaea my first time




Acropolis part 8 my first time
Propylaea 
2017 after a trip to Naxos island

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The Propylaea was the monumental gateway to the Acropolis of Athens,
 and was one of several public works commissioned by the Athenian leader Pericles 
in order to rebuild the Acropolis a generation after the conclusion of the Persian Wars.
 Pericles appointed his friend Phidias as the supervisor
 and lead architect of this massive project, which Pericles allegedly financed 
with funds appropriated from the treasury of the Delian League.
 According to Plutarch, the Propylaea was designed by the architect Mnesikles,
 about whom nothing else is known.
 Construction began in 437 BC and was terminated in 432,
 when the building was still unfinished.

The Propylaea was constructed of white Pentelic marble and gray Eleusinian marble or limestone,
 which was used only for accents. Structural iron was also used, though William Bell Dinsmoor
 analyzed the structure and concluded that the iron weakened the building. 
The structure consists of a central building with two adjoining wings
 on the west (outer) side, one to the north and one to the south.

The core is the central building, which presents a standard six-columned 
Doric façade both on the west to those entering the Acropolis 
and on the east to those departing. The columns echo the proportions 
(not the size) of the columns of the Parthenon. 
There is no surviving evidence for sculpture in the pediments.

The central building contains the gate wall, about two-thirds of the way through it.
 There are five gates in the wall, one for the central passageway,
 which was not paved and lay along the natural level of the ground, 
and two on either side at the level of the building's eastern porch, 
five steps up from the level of the western portico. 
The central passageway was the culmination of the Sacred Way, 
which led to the Acropolis from Eleusis.

Entrance into the Acropolis was controlled by the Propylaea.
 Though it was not built as a fortified structure, 
it was important that people not ritually clean be denied access to the sanctuary.
 In addition, runaway slaves and other miscreants could not be permitted
 into the sanctuary where they could claim the protection of the gods.
 The state treasury was also kept on the Acropolis, making its security important.

The gate wall and the eastern (inner) portion of the building sit
 at a level five steps above the western portion, and the roof of the central building
 rose on the same line. The ceiling in the eastern part of the central building 
was famous in antiquity, having been called by Pausanias (about 600 years
 after the building was finished) "...down to the present day unrivaled."
 It consisted of marble blocks carved in the shape of ceiling coffers and painted blue with gold stars.




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Visiting Acropolis part 2 Propylaea Erechtheion Parthenon my first time


Visiting Acropolis part 2 Propylaea Erechtheion Parthenon my first time



Acropolis part 2 my first time
Propylaea Erechtheion Parthenon 
2017 after a trip to Naxos island

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The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky
 outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several
 ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance,
 the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis
 is from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "highest point,
 extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city").[1] Although the term acropolis
 is generic and there are many other acropoleis in Greece,
 the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such 
that it is commonly known as "The Acropolis" without qualification.
 During ancient times it was known also more properly as Cecropia,
 after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the supposed first Athenian king.

While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back
 as the fourth millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495–429 BC)
 in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the site's
 most important present remains including the Parthenon, the Propylaia,
 the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike.The Parthenon
 and the other buildings were seriously damaged during the 1687
 siege by the Venetians during the Morean War when gunpowder being
 stored in the Parthenon was hit by a cannonball and exploded.





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