DESCRIPTION SITE MONUMENTS INFORMATION SOUTHWEST VIEW ACROPOLIS ROCK THE SOUTH SLOPE GREATEST SANCTUARY ANCIENT ATHENS GODDESS THE CENTRE THE MODERN ROCKY CRAG THE ACROPOLIS RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS CULTS EVENTS CONNECTED SACRED STAND IN HARMONY NATURAL UNIQUE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE COMBINE ORDERS CLASSICAL ART INNOVATIVE MANNER CULTURE CENTURIES FIFTH CENTURY BC ACCURATE REFLECTION SPLENDOUR POWER WEALTH ATHENS THE GOLDEN AGE PERIKLES POTTERY SHERDS NEOLITHIC PERIOD THE EARLY MIDDLE BRONZE AGE SHOW THE HILL FORTIFICATION WALL THIRTEENTH CENTURY BC THE CITADEL FORTIFICATION PRECINCT THE EIGHTH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CULT ATHENA POLIAS WHOSE TEMPLE STOOD THE NORTHEAST THE SANCTUARY FLOURISHED PEISISTRATOS RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL MONUMENTAL BUILDINGS PREDECESSOR THE PARTHENON DEDICATED TO THE SHRINE ARTEMIS BRAURONIA PROPYLON DATE OPULENT VOTIVE OFFERINGS MARBLE KORAI BRONZE TERRACOTTA STATUETTES BEAR INSCRIPTIONS THE GREAT IMPORTANCE CULT ARCHAIC ATHENIANS THE PERSIANS 490 BC BUILDING INVADED ATTICA IN 480 BC FIRE BURIED SURVIVING SCULPTURES INSIDE THUS FORMING ARTIFICIAL FORTIFIED TWO NEW THE WALL THEMISTOKLES NORTHERN KIMON ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS RUINED TEMPLES WALL VISIBLE SEAT ATHENIAN LEAGUE CULTURAL CENTRE INITIATED BUILDING PROJECT LASTED ENTIRE SECOND HALF FOREIGNERS ALIKE SALARY DRACHMA TODAY PROPYLAIA THE TEMPLE ATHENA NIKE PERIOD SUPERVISION ARTISTS THE NORTH ATHENIAN THE OLYMPIAN GODS SOUTHERN ATHENA POLIAS PROMACHOS ERGANE MANUAL LABOUR NIKE AFTER THE END THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR 404 BC FIRST CENTURY BC NO OTHER 27 BC AUGUSTUS ROME EAST ROMAN TIMES GREEK SANCTUARIES RETAINED PRESTIGE THE INVASION OF HERULIANS THE THIRD TWO GATES ON THE WEST SIDE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH ARCHAEOLOGIST TO THIS DAY SUFFERED NATURAL CAUSES HUMAN CHRISTIANITY THE SIXTH CONVERTED CHRISTIAN CHURCHES PARTHENOS MARIA VIRGIN PANAGIA CATHEDRAL ELEVENTH CENTURY CHAPEL EPISCOPAL THE FORTRESS MEDIEVAL OCCUPATION RULER OTTOMAN PERIOD TURKISH GARRISON THE VENETIANS BESIEGED SEPTEMBER 26TH MUNITIONS LORD ELGIN CAUSED DAMAGE LOOTING SCULPTURAL HANDED THE GREEKS THE GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE ODYSSEAS ANDROUTSOS THE LIBERATION OF CARE GREEK STATE LIMITED INVESTIGATION THE SITE KAVVADIAS TWENTIETH CENTURY COMMITTEE THE CONSERVATION THE AIM PLAN CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION CONDUCTED THE SERVICE COLLABORATION EPHORATE PREHISTORIC CLASSICAL IN PROGRESS AUTHOR IOANNA