akropolis

plural akropolises · plural akropoleis

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of acropolis.

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Acropolis.

   Emblematic of the new public consciousness, the religious focus in the city shifted from the Akropolis to the civic space, the agora.

   1990, Philip Brook Manville, “Tyranny, Trials, and the Triumph of Kleisthenes”, in The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1992 (2nd printing), →ISBN, page 167

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   The head-quarters of the other five squadrons of the latter corps are fixed at Argos. There are two companies of foot in Akrokorinth; a company of grenadiers, and one of pioneers in the Akropolis and Athens; […]

   1834 September, “Greece”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, 1834, part III, number 70, London: […] [F]or Henry Colburn by R[ichard] Bentley; […], →OCLC, “Foreign Miscellany” section, page 80

   From a sad memorial, the Akropolis was transformed into a splendid display of Athenian culture and power, a credit to the gods and the democratic city alike.

   2005, Alexandra Villing, “The Akropolis in the history of Athens”, in Classical Athens (A Place in History), London: The British Museum Press, →ISBN, section 1 (The Akropolis: citadel and sanctuary), page 9