Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Acropolis, Athens' has mentioned 'Construction' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
---|---|
While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495xe2x80x93429 BC) in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the site's most important present remains including the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Temple of Athena Nike. | WIKI |
For this reason, Athenians decided to stop the construction of the Olympieion temple which was connoted with the tyrant Peisistratos and his sons and, instead, used the Piraeus limestone destined for the Olympieion to build the Older Parthenon. | WIKI |
In 485 BC, construction stalled to save resources as Xerxes became king of Persia and war seemed imminent. | WIKI |
[16] The Older Parthenon was still under construction when the Persians invaded and sacked the city in 480 BC. | WIKI |
Construction of the elegant temple of Erechtheion in Pentelic marble (421xe2x80x93406 BC) was in accordance with a complex plan which took account of the extremely uneven ground and the need to circumvent several shrines in the area. | WIKI |
During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock. | WIKI |
View east toward the Acropolis under construction during summer 2014. | WIKI |