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Peripatos (Acropolis Of Athens)
The Peripatos () is an ancient pathway that girds the Acropolis of Athens, Acropolis in Athens and intersects with the Panathenaic way on the north slope. It connects the Cave Sanctuaries of the Akropolis, shrines that are interspersed around the Acropolis hill. A reading of Thucydides 2.17, which records that the shrines were erected within an area which it was forbidden to build or quarry called the Pelasgian ground, suggests that the peripatos follows the line of the archaic and now vanished Pelasgic wall. An inscription on a boulder of acropolis limestone from the north slope of the hill is the only epigraphic evidence of the pathway. It reads "Length of the Peripatos: five Stadion (unit), stades and eighteen feet." This inscription is dated to the fourth century BCE, though it is possible that the path had been cleared and in use at least since the Periklean building programme by when the cave sanctuaries had been established. Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias in the second c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plan Acropolis Of Athens Colored
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