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6th century B. C. Acro Acropolis Museum ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS altars of Athena ancient art Athena Nike Victory Athena Polias Athenian hero beautiful buil building Caryatides cella centre city of Athens corner Cyclopean decoration ding eastern enclosure epistyle Erech Erechtheum foot fortress foundations fragments frieze front wall gate Goddess ATHENA Greek tribes inner portico inscriptions inside invade the country Ionic pillars large door legendary King Cecrops little further little later little stair lonic maidens marble metopes metres Mnesicles modern Greece Mycenaean palace natural rock North side Odeum old Mycenaean old temple older temple Olympian Gods Parthe Parthenon pediment Peisistratos Pelasgic Pericles peripteral Persians Phidias picture gallery poros Poseidon preserved Propylaea Roman period roof ruins sacred olive tree sacred serpent sculptures six Doric columns South wall statue of Athena stone stood style temple of Athena theum to-day Victory Temple wall built western section western wall Wingless Victory worshipped zophoros