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Erechtheion, the Glossary

The Erechtheion (latinized as Erechtheum; Ἐρέχθειον, Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena.^[1]

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5th-century BC establishments in Greece
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Acropolis of Athens
Temples in ancient Athens
Temples of Athena
Temples of Poseidon

Achaemenid destruction of Athens

During the second Persian invasion of Greece, which took place between 480 and 479 BCE, Athens was captured and subsequently destroyed by the Achaemenid Empire.

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Acropolis

An acropolis was the settlement of an upper part of an ancient Greek city, especially a citadel, and frequently a hill with precipitous sides, mainly chosen for purposes of defense.

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Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens (Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. Erechtheion and Acropolis of Athens are ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens.

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Agoracritus

Agoracritus (Ἀγοράκριτος Agorákritos; fl. late 5th century BC) was a famous sculptor in ancient Greece.

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Alcamenes

Alcamenes (Ἀλκαμένης) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.

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American Journal of Archaeology

The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing the American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts founded by the institute in 1885).

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Amphiprostyle

In classical architecture, amphiprostyle (from the Greek ἀμφί (amphi), on both sides, and πρόστυλος (prostylos), a portico) denotes an ancient temple with a portico both at the front and the rear, where the columns on the narrow sides are not between antae.

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Anastylosis

Anastylosis (from the Ancient Greek: αναστήλωσις, -εως; ανα, ana.

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Ancient Greek architecture

Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.

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Ancient Greek temple

Greek temples (dwelling, semantically distinct from Latin templum, "temple") were structures built to house deity statues within Greek sanctuaries in ancient Greek religion.

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Ancient Roman architecture

Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.

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Anta (architecture)

An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side walls (of the naos).

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Apse

In architecture, an apse (apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς,, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis;: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.

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Arrephorion

The Arrephorion or House of the Arrephoroi is a building conjectured to have been on the Acropolis of Athens based on a passage in Pausanias. Erechtheion and Arrephorion are acropolis of Athens and ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens.

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Arrephoros

An Arrephoros (Ἀρρήφορος) was a girl acolyte in the cult of Athena Polias on the Athenian Acropolis.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.

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Athena

Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Autochthon (ancient Greece)

In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός autos "self," and χθών chthon "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself") means the indigenous inhabitants of a country, including mythological figures, as opposed to settlers, and those of their descendants who kept themselves free from an admixture of colonizing entities.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Bead and reel

Bead and reel is an architectural motif, usually found in sculptures, moldings and numismatics.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Byzantine Greece

Byzantine Greece has a history that mainly coincides with that of the Byzantine Empire itself.

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Callicrates

Callicrates or Kallikrates (Καλλικράτης) was an ancient Greek architect active in the middle of the fifth century BC.

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Callimachus (sculptor)

Callimachus (Καλλίμαχος) was an architect and sculptor working in the second half of the 5th century BC in the manner established by Polyclitus.

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Caryatid

A caryatid (Καρυᾶτις|) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. Erechtheion and caryatid are acropolis of Athens.

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Cecrops I

Cecrops was a mythical king of Attica which derived from him its name Cecropia, having previously borne the name of Acte or Actice (from Actaeus).

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Cella

In Classical architecture, a cella or is the inner chamber of an ancient Greek or Roman temple.

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Church of Panagia Atheniotissa

The Church of Our Lady of Athens or Panagia Atheniotissa (Panagia the Athenian) was a Greek Orthodox basilica adapted from the ruins of the Parthenon sometime in the 6th century CE.

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Classical Greece

Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.

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Coffer

A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.

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Cyclopean masonry

Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or no use of mortar.

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Cymatium

Cymatium, the uppermost molding at the top of the cornice in the classical order, is made of the s-shaped cyma molding (either cyma recta or cyma reversa), combining a concave cavetto with a convex ovolo.

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Deconsecration

Deconsecration, also referred to as decommissioning or secularization (a term also used for confiscation of church property), is the removal of a religious blessing from something that had been previously consecrated for religious use.

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Dizdar

Dizdar (translit; dizdar, kale muhafızı) was the title given in the Ottoman Empire to a castle warden or fortress commander, appointed to manage troops and keep the fortress in its role as a defence point.

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Duchy of Athens

The Duchy of Athens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, Doukaton Athinon; Catalan: Ducat d'Atenes) was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade as part of the process known as Frankokratia, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, and surviving until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.

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Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow, anchor, or dart).

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Elefsina

Elefsina (Elefsína) or Eleusis (Eleusís) is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area.

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Engaged column

An engaged column is an architectural element in which a column is embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall, which may or may not carry a partial structural load.

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Entablature

An entablature (nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") is the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals.

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Entasis

In architecture, entasis is the application of a convex curve to a surface for aesthetic purposes, or increasing strength.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Erechtheus

Erechtheus (Ἐρεχθεύς) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the polis and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus".

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Erichthonius (son of Hephaestus)

In Greek mythology, King Erichthonius (Ἐριχθόνιος|Erikhthónios) was a legendary early ruler of ancient Athens.

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Eumolpus

In Greek Mythology, Eumolpus (Ancient Greek: Εὔμολπος Eúmolpos, "good singer" or "sweet singing", derived from εὖ eu "good" and μολπή molpe "song", "singing") was a legendary king of Thrace.

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Fifth-century Athens

Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC.

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Frankokratia

The Frankokratia (Φραγκοκρατία, Francocratia, sometimes anglicized as Francocracy), also known as Latinokratia (Λατινοκρατία, Latinocratia, "rule of the Latins", Latin occupation) and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia (Βενετοκρατία or Ενετοκρατία, Venetocratia, "rule of the Venetians"), was the period in Greek history after the Fourth Crusade (1204), when a number of primarily French and Italian states were established by the Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae on the territory of the dismantled Byzantine Empire.

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George Wheler (travel writer)

Sir George Wheler (20 January 1651 – 15 January 1724) was an English clergyman and travel writer.

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German Archaeological Institute

The German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI) is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields).

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greece in the Roman era

Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically.

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Greek Revival architecture

Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821.

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Greek War of Independence

The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire between 1821 and 1829.

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Groin vault

A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.

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Guilloché

Guilloché, or guilloche, is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name.

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Helladic chronology

Helladic chronology is a relative dating system used in archaeology and art history.

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Hellenistic art

Hellenistic art is the art of the Hellenistic period generally taken to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and end with the conquest of the Greek world by the Romans, a process well underway by 146 BC, when the Greek mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium.

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Heroön

A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (pl.), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero.

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Heruli

The Heruli (or Herules) were an early Germanic people.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Ictinus

Ictinus (Ἰκτῖνος, Iktinos) was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC.

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Ion (mythology)

According to Greek mythology, Ion (Ἴων, Íon, gen.: Ἴωνος, Íonos, "going") was the illegitimate child of Creüsa, the daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Jacob Spon

Jacob Spon (or Jacques; in English dictionaries given as James; 1647 – 25 December 1685) was a French doctor and archaeologist.

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James "Athenian" Stuart

James "Athenian" Stuart (1713 – 2 February 1788) was a Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist, best known for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism.

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Julian (emperor)

Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus; Ἰουλιανός; 331 – 26 June 363) was the Caesar of the West from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek.

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Kanephoros

The Kanephoros (pl. Kanephoroi (Greek: Κανηφόροι); latinate plural form Canephorae; lit. "Basket Bearers") was an honorific office given to unmarried young women in ancient Greece, which involved the privilege of leading the procession to sacrifice at festivals; the highest honour was to lead the at the Panathenaic Festival.

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Kore (sculpture)

Kore (Greek: κόρη "maiden"; plural korai) is the modern term given to a type of free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period depicting female figures, always of a young age.

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Kore of Lyons

The Kore of Lyons (French: Coré de Lyon) is a Greek statue of Pentelic marble depicting a bust of a young girl of the kore type, conserved at the musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France.

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Kyriakos Pittakis

Kyriakos S. Pittakis (also Pittakys; Κυριακός Σ.; 1798 – 1863) was a Greek archaeologist.

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Latinisation of names

Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.

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Mnesikles

Mnesikles (Μνησικλῆς; Latin transliteration: Mnesicles) was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BC, the age of Pericles.

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Molding (decorative)

Moulding (British English), or molding (American English), also coving (in United Kingdom, Australia), is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration.

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Monopteros

A monopteros (Ancient Greek: ὁ μονόπτερος, from: μόνος, 'only, single, alone', and τὸ πτερόν, 'wing') is a circular colonnade supporting a roof but without any walls.

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Moria (tree)

In ancient Greece, the moriai (plural of moria) were olive trees considered to be the property of the state because of their religious significance.

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Mount Pentelicus

Mount Pentelicus or Pentelikon is a mountain in Attica, Greece, situated northeast of Athens and southwest of Marathon.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Naiskos

The naiskos (naiskoi; ναΐσκος, diminutive of ναός, "temple") is a small temple in classical order with columns or pillars and pediment.

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Narthex

The narthex is an architectural element typical of early Christian and Byzantine basilicas and churches consisting of the entrance or vestibule, located at the west end of the nave, opposite the church's main altar.

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Nicholas Revett

Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) was a British architect.

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Nikolaos Balanos

Nikolaos Balanos (Νικόλαος Μπαλάνος) (1869 in Athens – 22 September 1943) was a Greek architect.

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Old Temple of Athena

The Old Temple of Athena or the Archaios Neos (Ἀρχαῖος Νεώς) was an archaic Greek limestone Doric temple on the Acropolis of Athens probably built in the second half of the sixth-century BCE, and which housed the xoanon of Athena Polias. Erechtheion and Old Temple of Athena are ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens, temples in ancient Athens and temples of Athena.

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Opisthodomos

An opisthodomos (ὀπισθόδομος, 'back room') can refer to either the rear room of an ancient Greek temple or to the inner shrine, also called the adyton ('not to be entered').

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Opus isodomum

Opus isodomum ("work of equal height") is an ancient technique of wall construction with ashlars.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ottoman Greece

The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.

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Palmette

The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree.

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Pandroseion

The Pandroseion (pronounced: panδrosion, Greek: Πανδρόσειον) was a sanctuary dedicated to Pandrosus, one of the daughters of Cecrops I, the first king of Attica Greece, located on the Acropolis of Athens. Erechtheion and Pandroseion are acropolis of Athens and ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens.

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Pandrosus

Pandrosos or Pandrosus (Ancient Greek: Πάνδροσος) was known in Greek myth as one of the three daughters of Kekrops, the first king of Athens, and Aglaurus, daughter of King Actaeus.

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Parthenon

The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας|Parthenónas|) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Erechtheion and Parthenon are 5th-century BC religious buildings and structures, acropolis of Athens, ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens, temples in ancient Athens and temples of Athena.

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Patera

In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera or phiale is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD.

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Peace of Nicias

The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in March 421 BC that ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War.

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Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War (translit) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.

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Peplos

A peplos (ὁ πέπλος) is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by, during the late Archaic and Classical period.

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Pericles

Pericles (Περικλῆς; – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.

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Phidias

Phidias or Pheidias (Φειδίας, Pheidias) was an Ancient Greek sculptor, painter, and architect, active in the 5th century BC. Erechtheion and Phidias are acropolis of Athens.

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Politics of Greece

Greece is a parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the President of Greece is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Greece is the head of government within a multi-party system.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Poseidon

Poseidon (Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.

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Prostyle

Prostyle and Prostylos (πρόστυλος), literally meaning “with columns in front”, is an architectural term designating temples (especially Greek and Roman) featuring a row of columns on the front.

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Pteron

In Classical architecture, a pteron (πτερον, 'wing') is an external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple.

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Quadriga

A quadriga is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast and favoured for chariot racing in classical antiquity and the Roman Empire.

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Richard Pococke

Richard Pococke (19 November 1704 – 25 September 1765)Notes and Queries, p. 129.

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Rosette (design)

A rosette is a round, stylized flower design.

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Sanctuary of Pandion

The Sanctuary of Pandion is the name sometimes given to the remains of a building located in the south-east corner of the Acropolis of Athens. Erechtheion and Sanctuary of Pandion are 5th-century BC religious buildings and structures, acropolis of Athens and ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens.

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Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus

The Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus was a walled open-air sanctuary dedicated to Zeus Polieus (city protector) around 500 BC on the Acropolis of Athens, sited to the Erechtheion's east. Erechtheion and sanctuary of Zeus Polieus are acropolis of Athens, ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens and temples in ancient Athens.

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Shaft tomb

A shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of deep rectangular burial structure, similar in shape to the much shallower cist grave, containing a floor of pebbles, walls of rubble masonry, and a roof constructed of wooden planks.

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Sicilian Expedition

The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military expedition to Sicily, which took place from 415–413 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens on one side and Sparta, Syracuse and Corinth on the other.

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Siege of the Acropolis (1826–1827)

The Second Siege of the Acropolis in 1826–1827 during the Greek War of Independence involved the siege of the Acropolis of Athens, the last fortress still held by the Greek rebels in Central Greece, by the forces of the Ottoman Empire. Erechtheion and siege of the Acropolis (1826–1827) are acropolis of Athens.

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Siphnian Treasury

The Siphnian Treasury was a building at the Ancient Greek cult centre of Delphi, erected to host the offerings of the polis, or city-state, of Siphnos.

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Spolia

Spolia (Latin for 'spoils';: spolium) are stones taken from an old structure and repurposed for new construction or decorative purposes.

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Stoa

A stoa (plural, stoas,"stoa", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1989 stoai, or stoae), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use.

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Stylobate

In classical Greek architecture, a stylobate (στυλοβάτης) is the top step of the crepidoma, the stepped platform upon which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the floor of the temple).

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Temenos

A temenos (Greek: τέμενος; plural: τεμένη, temenē).

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Temple of Apollo Patroos

The Temple of Apollo Patroos (meaning "of the fathers") is a small ruined temple on the west side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Erechtheion and temple of Apollo Patroos are ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens and temples in ancient Athens.

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Temple of Artemis

The Temple of Artemis or Artemision (Ἀρτεμίσιον; Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equalized to Diana, a Roman goddess).

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Temple of Roma and Augustus

The Temple of Roma and Augustus was a monopteral circular Ionic temple built on the Acropolis of Athens, likely coincident with Augustus' second visit to Athens. Erechtheion and temple of Roma and Augustus are acropolis of Athens, ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens and temples in ancient Athens.

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Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine, (20 July 176614 November 1841), often known as Lord Elgin, was a British nobleman, diplomat, and collector, known primarily for the controversial procurement of marble sculptures (known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon and other structures on the Acropolis of Athens.

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Also known as Erechteum, Erechtheium, Erechtheum, Erectheion, Ereichtheion, Eteoboutades.

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406 BC

5th-century BC establishments in Greece

5th-century BC religious buildings and structures

Acropolis of Athens

Temples in ancient Athens

Temples of Athena

Temples of Poseidon

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