The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Persians , although the buildings within the walls under- went great alteration and improvements under the govern- ment of Pisistratus and his sons . Altar of wall . The Pisis- tratids . The reign of the Pisistratids was recognised by ...
... Persians , although the buildings within the walls under- went great alteration and improvements under the govern- ment of Pisistratus and his sons . Altar of wall . The Pisis- tratids . The reign of the Pisistratids was recognised by ...
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... Persian invasion , which forced the Athenians to take After the refuge in their " wooden walls , " and to leave their city at Persian the mercy of the barbarian , marked an important epoch in war . the annals of Athenian building . Upon ...
... Persian invasion , which forced the Athenians to take After the refuge in their " wooden walls , " and to leave their city at Persian the mercy of the barbarian , marked an important epoch in war . the annals of Athenian building . Upon ...
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... Persian campaign he fortified the S. side of the Acropolis with a remarkably solid wall , which terminated in a sort ... Persians , as the head of the Ionic confederation , Athens had suddenly grown to be the foremost city in Greece ...
... Persian campaign he fortified the S. side of the Acropolis with a remarkably solid wall , which terminated in a sort ... Persians , as the head of the Ionic confederation , Athens had suddenly grown to be the foremost city in Greece ...
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... Persian War had already been consecrated under Cimon to the honour of the national goddess , in the tatue of erection of a colossal statue of Athena by Phidias between the entrance of the Acropolis and the Erechtheium ; her warlike ...
... Persian War had already been consecrated under Cimon to the honour of the national goddess , in the tatue of erection of a colossal statue of Athena by Phidias between the entrance of the Acropolis and the Erechtheium ; her warlike ...
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... Persian War ( 479 B.C. ) A building so sacred would hardly have been allowed to remain for long in ruins ; but it was reserved for Pericles to set about a complete restoration of it . However , the Peloponnesian War seems to have ...
... Persian War ( 479 B.C. ) A building so sacred would hardly have been allowed to remain for long in ruins ; but it was reserved for Pericles to set about a complete restoration of it . However , the Peloponnesian War seems to have ...
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