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5 - The Akropolis

from Part I - The Urban Fabric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
Panos Valavanis
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

This chapter explores the history of the Akropolis, the focal point of the cult and the architectural display of the Athenian city-state. It presents of all the buildings with their architectural innovations and sculptural decoration, delving into their meaning and the objectives of their creators.

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AkropolisParthenonPropylaiaErechtheionTemple of Athena NikeClassical architecturesculptural decoration
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 63 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

The bibliography on the Akropolis of Athens is vast and thus very difficult to study fully. That said, the books by Hurwit 1999 and 2004 and Holtzmann 2003 continue to be essential and irreplaceable. For this reason, the selected bibliography presented here is mostly from 2004 onwards; for a general bibliography on the Athenian Akropolis, see Sassu 2012. The most important recent books taking general approaches and making many new contributions are those by Neils 2005, Barringer and Hurwit 2005, Shear 2016, Meyer 2017, and Rous 2019, along with the article of Valavanis in Neils and Palagia forthcoming. Greco 2010 provides a summary of research data and a good bibliography on all the monuments, while the latest collections on the Hellenistic and Roman periods is Krumeich and Witschel 2010. The investigations and papers by scholars of the restoration of the Akropolis monuments continue to provide new material (e.g. Lambrinou 2019 and Manidaki 2019), as well as the honorary volumes for Manolis Korres (Zambas et al. 2016) and Charalambos Bouras (Korres et al. 2018), along with Palagia and Sioumpara 2019 and Neils and Palagia forthcoming.

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Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

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