121 examples of acropolis in sentences

Athena had a "Bronzen House" on the acropolis of Sparta.

After a pleasant ride of four hours the Acropolis of Athens burst upon our view.

When, finding my project succeed, I made a bold push, got upon the Acropolis {166a} and from thence slid down to the theatre.

The Acropolis was on the top of a high rock.

Among the works of Polygnotus, as mentioned by Pliny, are his paintings in the Temple at Delphi, in the Propylaea of the Acropolis, in the Temple of Theseus, and in the Temple of the Dioscuri at Athens.

The Turkish garrison of Athens shut itself up in the Acropolis.

They lost Athens, whose citadel they had besieged, but defeated the Turks in Thermopylae with great slaughter, which enabled them to reoccupy Athens and blockade the Acropolis.

The Acropolis of Athens capitulated to the victorious Greeks, not without the usual atrocities, and Attica, was recovered.

But the Turks, always more fortunate on land than by sea, pressed now the siege of the Acropolis, and Athens fell into their hands early in 1827.

Refuge N. refuge, sanctuary, retreat, fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison &c 752; asylum, ark, home, refuge for the destitute;

The position of these curious remains in a lonely valley, shut in on all sides by dark, pine-covered mountains-two of which are crowned with a natural acropolis of rock, resembling a fortressincreases the interest with which they inspire the beholder.

The Turcoman reapers, who came up to see us and talk with us, said that there were the remains of walls on the summit of the principal acropolis opposite us, and that, further up the valley, there was a chamber with two columns in front.

We took the wrong road, but were set aright by a herdsman, and after threading a lane between thriving grain-fields, were cheered by the sight of the Temple of OEzani, lifted on its acropolis above the orchards of Chavdür, and standing out sharp and clear against the purple of the hills.

Passing through the village we came to a grand artificial platform on its western side, called the Acropolis.

Let me take you to the then still unfurnished theatre of Athens, hewn out of the limestone rock on the south-east slope of the Acropolis.

It has given Livy the opportunity of putting into the orator's mouth a splendid encomium on the city and its site; but no such story could well have found a place in Roman annals if the Capitol had been as deeply set in the hearts of the people as was the Acropolis in the hearts of the Athenians.

Perched like a Parthenon on Nob Hill, the acropolis of San Francisco, is the Fairmont Hotel commanding a view of the Bay and the Contra Costa hills.

I took the child on all the excursions I made, to Marathon and other of the local points of interest, for he was a great reader, and interested in Greek history and archeology already, passing most of his time with me in my work on the Acropolis.

I had made preparations while in London, for the publication of a volume of photographs of the Acropolis of Athens, and, when I had left the children with their mother's parents, I returned to London for a few weeks, to superintend the production of it.

The Acropolis book, published privately, cleared for me about $1000.

He said to the young lady, however, that the State House was the Parthenon of our Acropolis, which seemed to please her, for she smiled, and he reddened a little,so I thought.

The glorious beauty of the Acropolis at Athens did not come from single fine things stuck about on that hill, a statue here, a gateway there;no, it arose from all things being perfectly combined for a supreme total effect.

The two chief monuments of the architecture of ancient Athens, both erected on the Acropolis, are the PARTHENON (q. v.), dedicated to Athena, the finest building on the finest site in the world, and the Erechtheum, a temple dedicated to Poseidon close by; is the capital (100) of modern Greece, the seat of the government, and the residence of the king.

In that one glance we decided that we would see the Acropolis or die in the attempt.

I had left my heart and all my senses in the Acropolis.

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