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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ty itself, however, afterward taking anortherly direction. On the E. ran theIlissus and on the W. the Cephissus, whileto the S. W. lay three harbors—Phalerum,the oldest and nearest; the Pirseus, themost important; and Munychia, thePiraean Acropolis. At the height of itsprosperity the city was connected withits harbors by three massive walls (thelong walls). ATHENS 326 ATHENS Architecture.—The architectural de- and built the Theseum on an eminence velopment of Athens may be dated from N. of the Areopagus; his brother-in-law, the rule of the Pisistratids (560-510 B. Peisianax, erecting the famous Stoa C.),who are credited with the foundation Poecile, a hall with walls covered with of the huge temple of the Olympian Zeus, paintings (whence the Stoics got their completed by Hadrian seven centuries name). Under Pericles the highest point later, the erection of the Pythium or of artistic development was reached. An temple of Pythian Apollo, and of the odeium was erected on the E. of the
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ATHENS, GREECE Lyceum or temple of Apollo Lyceus—allnear the Ilissus; and to whom were duethe inclosure of the academy, a gymna-sium and gardens to the N. of the city,and the building of the Agora with itsPortico or Stoa, Bouleuterium or Senate-house, Tholus and Prytanium. With thefoundation of Athenian democracy underClisthenes, the Pnyx or place of publicassembly, with its semi-circular area andCyclopean wall, first became of impor-tance, and a commencement was made tothe Dionysiac theater (theater of Diony-sus or Bacchus) on the S. side of theAcropolis. Reconstruction.—After the destructionwrought by the Persians in 480 B. C,Themistocles reconstructed the city uponpractical lines, and with a larger area,inclosing the city in new walls 7% milesm circumference, erecting the N. wall ofthe Acropolis, and developing the mari-time resources of the Piraeus; whileCimon added to the southern fortifi-cations of the Acropolis, placed on it thetemple of Wingless Victory, planted theAgora w

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