Propylaea at Athens
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
tags:
extant remains,
Doric
A monumental gateway at the western end of the Athenian Acropolis. As an element of the Periklean remaking of the Athenian Acropolis, work on the Propylaea commenced in 437 BCE and was abandoned, unfinished, in 432 BCE. The architect Mnesikles was responsible for the Propylaea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648120846
37.971738459, 23.7251040538
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Προπύλαια (550 BC - AD 1699) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Propylaea (Acropolis of Athens) (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Προπύλαια (Propylaia: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Propylaea at Athens part of (physical/topographic) Acropolis of Athens (550 BC - AD 1699)
- Propylaea at Athens succeeds Building B (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Propylaea at Athens succeeds Older Propylaea (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Sanctuary of Aphrodite Pandemos located near Propylaea at Athens (30 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Athena Nike located south of Propylaea at Athens (unspecified date range)
gateway, monument
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Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle, 'Propylaea at Athens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648120846> [accessed: 20 December 2024]
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