place

Acropolis

Places

A high fortified civic height, especially in Greek speech. Not citadel as a generic inner fort alone, and not agora as the lower gathering place.

Hellenic religion

  • Acropolis appears in Hellenic religion.

    Herodotus’s Persian Wars logos seats the Athenian acropolis among sack, refuge, and sacred high places. A named acropolis in that traveler’s speech, not citadel as the generic keep-apart and not a tourist-ruin dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Acropolis is sacred to Athena.

    Pausanias seats the Athenian Acropolis as Athena’s high sanctuary—Polias, Parthenos neighbors, and peplos approach among the rock’s cult. A place→goddess dedication in that periegesis, not Minerva interpretatio and not athena→athens already stored the other way.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    sacred to · sourced · documented

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