place

Propylaea

Places

A named monumental gateway building of classical Greek sanctuary approaches. Not a triumphal-arch, not a torana, and not a torii.

Also known as Propylaia · Greek propylaea

Hellenic religion

  • Propylaea appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias describes the Propylaea, the monumental gateway of the Athenian Acropolis approach, in his Attic tour. A named Hellenic gate-building in that travel book, not a torii and not a pailou.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

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