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Acropolis was the central fortress and principal sanctuary of Athena, patron goddess of the city. In the later 13th century BC, the steep hill was enclosed by a massive wall. Within, there are Mycenaean terraces. The first monumental temples and sculptural dedications date to the 6th Century. Two large Doric temples of limestone with marble trim were built, along with a half-dozen small temples or treasuries. Later quarrying has obliterated the foundations of all but one of the colonnaded temples (c.510) which stood on the north side of the hill, just south of the later Erechtheum. A marble temple, the Older Parthenon, was under construction on the southern half of the hill in 480, when the Persians took and sacked the city. The debris from this devastation was buried on the Acropolis, and no major construction took place for about a generation.

In the 450s, a monumental statue of Athena Promachus was set up to celebrate the victory over the Persians, and in the second half of the 5th century four major buildings were constructed. First came the Parthenon (447-432); the Propylaea (437-432), gateway to the Acropolis, occupied the western approaches to the citadel. Soon after, an old shrine of Athena Nike (Victory) was refurbished and a small temple of the Ionic order was built just outside the Propylaea. Finally the Erechtheum was constructed during the last quarter of the 5th century.

Only a few buildings were added to the Acropolis in later times: a sanctuary of Braubronian Artemis and the Chalkotheke, were bronzes were stored. A tall pier built just outside the Propylaea in the 2nd century BC, first carried statues of Eumenes II and Attalus II, kings of Pergamum and benefactors of Athens, later replaced by one of Agrippa. The Roman presence in Greece is reflected on the Acropolis by the construction after 27 BC of a small round temple dedicated to Rome and Augustus and built in an Ionic order closely copying the Erechtheum.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

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