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On the southern wing of the Propylaea was a temple to the Wingless Victory; on the northern, a Pinacotheca, or picture gallery.
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The Propylaea is the only Acropolis monument to retain large sections of its ancient roofing.
Fore, right! 2009
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The Propylaea is the only Acropolis monument to retain large sections of its ancient roofing.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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The Propylaea is the only Acropolis monument to retain large sections of its ancient roofing.
Fore, right! 2009
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Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press IN PROTEST: Culture Ministry workers displayed a banner that read "No Firings" on the roof of the Propylaea, the monumental gate of the ancient Acropolis, Thursday in Athens.
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On the outside, the museum reminded her of fifth and sixth century Greece, back when she had watched with interest as the humans of that region warred with each other at the same time they built incredible structures like the Parthenon, the Propylaea, and temple after temple to their gods.
Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010
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Tellingly, however, he portrays the ancient temple not from the angle where we see him planted with his sketchbook, but as we first see it on entering the Acropolis from the Propylaea: at an angle that presents the building's south and west sides entire, while projecting porches allow us to intuit the look of the north and east façades.
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
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Thus it was particularly challenging to set the existing Classical structures -- the Erechtheum, the Parthenon, and the Propylaea -- in 3D space accurately with one another and with the foundations of the Old Athena Temple.
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Most familiar to us are the fifth-century B.C. monuments, the Nike Temple, Erechtheum, Propylaea, and, especially, the Parthenon.
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Screen grab from the virtual reality model of the Acropolis showing the visual dominance of the Old Athena Temple and alignment of it to the Propylaea (© 2003 Learning Sites, Inc.)
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