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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The “house of Erechtheus”; a temple of Ionic order on the Acropolis of Athens, noted as one of the most original achievements of Hellenic architecture.
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The Erechtheum was the only Ionic temple of first-rate importance in Greece, and the employment of the Ionic order in Greece was confined to interiors and minor buildings.
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In one of the oldest temples on the Acropolis, called the Erechtheum, there was an ancient wooden statue of Athena which the Athenians believed had fallen from heaven.
The Spartan Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901
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There is also a building called the Erechtheum, and in the vestibule is an altar of Supreme Zeus, where they offer no living sacrifice, but cakes without the usual libation of wine.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885
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Elgin's representative in Athens exploited loopholes in a vaguely worded permit from Greece's Ottoman overlords and stripped both the Parthenon and an adjoining shrine, the Erechtheum, of their choicest surviving sculptures (many had been destroyed in the infamous Venetian bombardment of 1687).
Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009
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Among those pieces are five caryatids (columns in the form of draped standing women) that formerly supported the so-called Porch of the Maidens on the Erechtheum, a small temple just to the north of the Parthenon.
Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 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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Standing high on the Acropolis in Athens, is the majestic Erechtheum.
Painting a Greek Temple Steve Hulett 2007
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The Propylaea was really cool to see, as was the Erechtheum.
Archive 2006-04-01 Andrew 2006
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The Propylaea was really cool to see, as was the Erechtheum.
Greece! Andrew 2006
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