acropolis
IPA: ʌkrˈɑpʌɫʌs
Root Word: Acropolis
noun
- The Athenian Acropolis. (Compare acropolis.)
- A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis.
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Examples of "acropolis" in Sentences
- As a tourist you will see the Acropolis.
- A narrow path leads to the Acropolis above.
- It was located at the base of the Acropolis.
- The acropolis was built on a set of terraces.
- The hilltop campus is known as the Acropolis.
- Somewhere North of the acropolis was the agora.
- A large piece was found to the northwest of the acropolis.
- The Acropolis of the town was strengthened by defence bulwarks.
- The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea.
- The Acropolis was explored by the French archaeologist Louis Robert in 1937.
- The one thing I remembered about the acropolis was the story of the siege by the Persians.
- For if we abolish the acropolis which is in the city, can we abolish also that of fever, and that of beautiful women?
- -- Almost every Greek city has its own formidable citadel, its own "acropolis," -- for "citadel" is really all this word conveys.
- Below the complex of the acropolis is the theater of Dionysis and the Odeum which still has summer concerts, though not at this time.
- Can we, in a word, abolish the acropolis which is in us and cast out the tyrants within us, whom we have dally over us, sometimes the same tyrants, at other times different tyrants?
- I presume the city then occupied the same position as at present, on a plain surrounding the rocky acropolis, which is so striking and picturesque a feature as to justify the enthusiasm of the
- During this week, we discovered a third defense system down slope from the fortification wall, part from the normal city wall and the circuit wall surrounding the Zencirli Tepe (the "acropolis" with a height of 1784 m.a.s.l.).
- The aim of this year's mapping activities is to supplement the topographical and archaeological map of Tepe Düzen with observations on the south slopes of the Zincirli Tepe (the "acropolis" of the site), and the area west and south of the zone we mapped last year.
- While, therefore, the majority of the Indian workmen were kept employed at the cemeteries, Kopeli, the Snake chief, a man in whom I have great confidence, was assigned to the excavation of a series of rooms at the highest point of the ruin, previously referred to as the acropolis
- -- The discussion on twin cities is intended to draw attention to its West Asian parallels, the "acropolis" or "ark" city, as well as to the theories on the difference between Western and Asian cities (M. Weber) and the specific type of cities in "dual societies" (H. Boeke).p. 34: This is a modified form of the H. Shih theory.