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architecture

    • high Classical style
      • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
        In Western architecture: High Classical (c. 450–400 bce)

        for the Athenian Acropolis. The Acropolis architecture, which is in several ways a clear display of civic pride, also exhibits considerable subtlety of design in its use of the Doric and Ionic orders. The ensemble of the major buildings—the Parthenon, a temple to Athena; the Erechtheum, a temple…

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    • history and development
      • the Acropolis
        In acropolis

        acropolis, built during the second half of the 5th century bc. The Athenian acropolis, located on a craggy, walled hill, was built as a home of Athena, the patron goddess of the city. The structures that survive consist of the Propylaea, the gateway to the…

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    • propylaeum

    construction by

      • Peisistratus
        • Peisistratus
          In Peisistratus: Tyrant of Athens

          …shrine to Artemis on the Acropolis. Above all, Athena now became the main deity to be revered by all Athenian citizens. Peisistratus constructed an entry gate (later destroyed and replaced by Pericles’ Propylaea) on the Acropolis and perhaps built an old Parthenon under the temple that now stands on the…

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      • Pericles
        • Pericles
          In Pericles: Restoring Athens’s preeminence

          …building program centred on the Acropolis. In 447 work started on the temple later known as the Parthenon and on the gold and ivory statue of Athena (by Phidias), which it was to house; the Acropolis project was to include, among other things, a temple to Victory and the Propylaea…

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