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- The Erechtheion (/ɪˈrɛkθiən/, latinized as Erechtheum /ɪˈrɛkθiəm, ˌɛrɪkˈθiːəm/; Ancient Gr****: Ἐρέχθειον, Gr****: Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias is...
- Ionic mode to be seen on the Athenian Acropolis is exemplified in the Erechtheum. Following the conquests of Alexander the Great in the east, a few examples...
- of the Turkish army, the Parthenon was converted into a mosque and the Erechtheum was turned into the governor's private harem. The buildings of the Acropolis...
- papyrus fragment. They demonstrate for Burkert that "the founding of the Erechtheum and the institution of the priestess of Athena coincide." Athena resolves...
- Achaemenid frieze designs at ****polis. Gr**** friezes Ionic frieze of the Erechtheum (Athens), 421–406 BCE Top: Kyanos frieze from Tiryns. Bottom: Frieze of...
- stele or vertical tombstones, the necking of the Ionic columns of the Erechtheum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the same,...
- temples, such as the prostyle porch of the sanctuary of Athena on the Erechtheum, at the Acropolis of Athens. With the colonization by the Gr****s of Southern...
- the Erechtheum and the Tower of the Winds, both in Athens, for their inspiration. The doorways are closely modelled on those of the Erechtheum, as is...
- sometimes omitted—for example, on the portico of the caryatides of the Erechtheum—and probably did not exist as a structure in the temple of Diana at Ephesus...
- of a tetralogy at the City Dionysia festival and win first prize. The Erechtheum, which includes The Porch of Maidens (Caryatid Porch), is completed in...