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    The Temple of Athena Nike (Greek: Ναός Αθηνάς Νίκης, Naós Athinás Níkis) is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Athena and...
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    another deity such as Athena. In Greek literature Nike is described as both an attribute and attendant to the gods Zeus and Athena. Nike gained this honored...
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    south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin)...
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    and it is the right part of a slab from the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike. Its similarities with some of Aphrodite's iconography...
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  • (Paestum) Temple of Athena (Syracuse) Temple of Athena Alea, at Tegea, Greece Temple of Athena Lindia, on Rhodos, Greece Temple of Athena Nike, also on the Athenian...
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    7267 The Old Temple of Athena or the Archaios Neos (Greek: Ἀρχαῖος Νεώς) was an archaic Greek limestone Doric temple on the Acropolis of Athens probably...
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    statue of Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena. Attributed...
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    to the plateau lies between what is now the bastion of the Temple of Athena Nike and the terrace of the Agrippa Monument. In Mycenaean times the bastion...
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    Parthenon (redirect from Temple of Athena)
    romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative...
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  • Callicrates (category Year of birth unknown)
    architect of "the Temple of Nike" on the Acropolis of Athens (IG I3 35). The temple in question is either the amphiprostyle Temple of Athena Nike now visible...
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    Parthenon sculptures, as well as sculptures from the Erechtheion, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Propylaia, sending them to Britain in efforts to establish...
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    and Greek temples, this motif was later incorporated by the Romans into their temples. Examples of prostyle include the Temple of Athena Nike, Akropolis...
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    Ludwig Ross (category German people of Scottish descent)
    and reconstruction of the Temple of Athena Nike in 1835–1836, and for his other excavation and conservation work on the Acropolis of Athens. He was also...
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    tetrastyle small Temple of Athena Nike at Athens. Other known examples are the Temple of Artemis Agrotera outside Athens, and the hexastyle Temple of the Athenians...
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    Examples include the small Temple of Athena Nike and Temple of Venus and Roma. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)...
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    Athena Nike at the Acropolis: Bibliography of the temple and the Athena Promachos R.J.H.Jenkins, 1947. "The Bronze Athena at Byzantium", Journal of Hellenic...
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    Revett in 1794 The Temple of Athena Nike with its very damaged pediments The roofs were crowned by acroteria, originally in the form of elaborately painted...
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    Athena was closely associated with the city. She was known as Polias and Poliouchos (both derived from polis, meaning "city-state"), and her temples were...
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    Temple of Athena Nike, the Eleusinion, the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, the Old Temple of Athena, the Odeon of Herodes...
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    Callimachus (sculptor) (category Artists of Archelaus of Macedon)
    sculptures of Nikes on the frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike ("Athena, Bringer of Victory") , by the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens. The small temple was...
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    The Temple of Athena Pronaia was a temple at the ancient site of Delphi, in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, a group of buildings comprising temples and...
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    with Ionic columns of the Temple of Athena Nike (Athens, Greece) Etruscan portico of a temple model (now in National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome)...
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    Beulé Gate (category Acropolis of Athens)
    towers are joined by walls to the terraces above, including that of the Temple of Athena Nike. The doorway is set into a marble wall and aligned with the main...
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    small Temple of Athena Nike. The summit of the Acropolis was covered with temples, statues of bronze and marble, and various other works of art. Of the...
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    Acropolis Museum (category Acropolis of Athens)
    from the other Acropolis buildings such as the Erechtheum, the Temple of Athena Nike, and the Propylaea and findings from Roman and early Christian Athens...
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    The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene was an Ionic Order temple located northwest of Priene’s agora, inside the sanctuary complex. It was dedicated to...
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    heights around the city and began a siege of the Acropolis. The Ottomans first demolished the Temple of Athena Nike to erect a cannon battery, and on 25 September...
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    located west of the Propylaea of Athens and the same height as the Temple of Athena Nike to the south, was built in honor of Eumenes II of Pergamon in...
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    Procne and Itys (sculpture) (category Sculptures of women in Greece)
    discovered near the temple of Athena-Nike during the early nineteenth century, and it is now exhibited in the Acropolis Museum of Athens, in Greece. In...
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    one of the sculptors who worked on the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike. The latter dates to the third century BC and is probably the statue of Aphrodite...
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