Sentence examples for acropolis for from inspiring English sources

AUDUBON TERRACE started with so much promise, a visionary acropolis for a growing city.

Daedalus is said to have thrown the boy from the Acropolis, for which act he was banished from Athens.

Restoration work on the Acropolis, for instance, will be going on for years after the last medals have been awarded.

MANFREDI NICOLETTI and LUCIO PASSARELLI will collaborate on the structure, to be built at the foot of the Acropolis for an estimated $100 million.

I'm pretty certain that if you wanted to film on the Athenian Acropolis for a documentary that was broadly in favour of Lord Elgin's interventions, permission would not be forthcoming, however much cash you shelled out.

The Acropolis, for example, had been a place of dense habitation, but was thoroughly cleansed: the site was stripped back to its fifth century BC phase, revealing the Parthenon and other temples in all their glory while destroying not just the structures of the time, but those from most of the 2,500 years in between.

Goris' claim, that the Paleochristian basilica is built on the foundations of an older temple dedicated to Adonis, has been disputed by the archaeological community, particularly by the French Archaeological School of Athens, which has been excavating the acropolis of Amathus for a number of years.

His next collection, Epitafios (1936; "Funeral Lament"), was symbolically burned at the foot of the Acropolis, and for nearly a decade he could not publish freely.

It's worth remembering that in his day locals were gleefully walking off with bits of the Acropolis buildings for reuse in their homes or to burn in lime kilns.

The museum is likely to be the final component of a kind of cultural acropolis conceived for this hilltop stretch of Grand Avenue more than 50 years ago by Dorothy Chandler, the powerful wife of the Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler.

But with half of the marbles still in Greece, and with a museum being built to house them at the foot of the Acropolis, campaigners for their return said that they found the British Museum's attitude "insulting".