Subject
Propylaea (Acropolis, Athens, Greece)
Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Athens (Greece)
Attikē (Greece)
Classical Greece
Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Age of Pericles
Pericles, 495-429 B.C.
Description
This photograph depicts the north-side dining hall of the Propylaea, the massive entrance gate standing on the western side of the Athenian Acropolis. Built by the great Athenian statesman, Pericles, as part of his massive building projects during the height of Athenian navel supremacy in the Greek world, construction lasted five years from 437 BCE to 432 BCE.