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  • With no signs of violence on her, and no memory of her identity, she feels a strange attraction to the ruins of the Akropolis, the ancient religious center of the goddess Athena.

    Review: Athena #2 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Durring the Nazi occupatio, Manolis Glezos lowered the “swastica” from Akropolis, he was jailed for it.

    Global Voices in English » Macedonia: Alexander the Great as Media Bait 2009

  • The closest metro stop is Akropolis, on Line 2/Red.

    2008 May 13 archive at eternallycool.net 2008

  • The film opens with a series of didactic visits to monuments in various countries, where the Portuguese woman converses primarily in fluent French with everyone she meets (including a Greek Orthodox priest outside the Akropolis).

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

  • I heard an awful rumor that the Pixies are praying at Akropolis on Jury 13, the day after I leave.

    scottymac.blogspot.com 2006

  • Most of the people live clustered along the branch of the Mese that runs from the Akropolis past Blachernae to the gate to the Adrianople road.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Most of the people live clustered along the branch of the Mese that runs from the Akropolis past Blachernae to the gate to the Adrianople road.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Boardman cites another passage in Pausanias (1.26.5) referring to the mark of Poseidon's trident in the rock of the Akropolis in Athens.

    Looking for the Lost Greeks Wills, Garry 2003

  • Pheidias did one other great work on the Akropolis, but that was apart from the Parthenon — another colossal Athena, this one in bronze, the "Warrior Athena" that stood near the entrance to the high rock's plateau (Pausanias 1.28.2).

    Looking for the Lost Greeks Wills, Garry 2003

  • Or they used material taken from other structures dismantled on the Akropolis.

    Looking for the Lost Greeks Wills, Garry 2003

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