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  • The Ionic order of the Erechtheion is the one which is best known and has been most frequently copied and adapted in modern work.

    The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 08, August 1895 Fragments of Greek Detail Various

  • Like most of their images, in which real people go about their business among the ruins, Stuart's drawing of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis includes a portrait of the Ottoman aga who had his residence in this august place.

    A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009

  • According to Dr. Dorpfeld, a quite separate building of the Doric order, the site of which (S. of the Erechtheion) has lately been discovered.

    Hellenica 2007

  • I kissed Helena beside the caryatid porch of the Erechtheion.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • We'll be shifting them to Athens — sniff at the Pnyx, give the Spartan girls the eye on the Erechtheion — are you a caryatids man? — scuttle up the Parthenon to pay respects to Pallas Athena, then sail off from Piraeus across the wine-dark sea. '

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Polias, the Erechtheion; so throughout this account.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • The argument over the 2,400-year-old sculptures, which once graced the Temple of Athena Parthenos on the Athenian acropolis, has been unremitting since Thomas Bruce, the seventh earl of Elgin, carried off 56 pieces of its frieze, 15 metopes, and 17 pediment sculptures, plus a caryatid and a column from a nearby temple, the Erechtheion.

    At the Museums: The Parthenon Marbles Custody Case 1999

  • Erechtheion, must therefore have existed in Roman times.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • That the designation αρχαίος (παλαιός) νεώς is applicable to the Erechtheion has been accepted for many years and has been explained anew by

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • Kabbadias and Dörpfeld unearthed the foundations of a great temple close by the southern side of the Erechtheion, all questions concerning the exact site, the ground-plan, and the elevation of the great temple of Athena of the sixth century

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

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