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Definition of Acropolises
1. acropolis [n] - See also: acropolis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acropolises
Literary usage of Acropolises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"Three ‘acropolises' can be distinguished: one on the Champs-Elysées and the
Esplanade des Invalides, ..."
2. The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Fenton John Anthony Hort, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1854)
"There is considerable difficulty in assigning the positions of these acropolises,
about which topographers do not agree. According to the learned Morritt, ..."
3. History of Art by Elie Faure (1921)
"... which the temples of blue and gold must have taken on as they arose, under
the immense Greek sky, from the forests and laurels of the acropolises and ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This was the original city (as indeed most of the acropolises date from the times
of barbaric insecurity), later the upper city as distinguished from the ..."
5. The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.: Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by by Walter Thornbury (1897)
"... after Watteau and Stothard, arches of Constantine, and acropolises crowning
imaginary hills. One volume, dated 1809, contains notes on the Passage of ..."
6. George Palmer Putnam: A Memoir, Together with a Record of the Earlier Years by George Haven Putnam (1912)
"... and acropolises, still it never could attain one thousandth part of the glory
of the Attic town with one. Old time makes all the difference. ..."
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