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Acropolis of Athens Route in Spacetime The Acropolis of Athens, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was populated since the Neolithic era and during the Mycenean times was fortified with walls that protected the officers of the army. Later, in the place of the palace, there was built a temple dedicated to the gods Poseidon and Athena, which was destroyed later during the Archaic era twice, and was rebuilt for the second time at the beginning of the 5th century B.C.
! Acropolis by Leo von Klenze
The construction of the walls of Acropolis started with Kimon (Greek: Κίμων) and Themistocles (Greek: Θεμιστοκλῆς), Athenian politicians and generals in mid-5th century B.C., and was completed with Pericles (Greek: Περικλῆς), a prominent and influential Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age and his cooperators - the architect Iktinos and the general supervisor and sculptor Fidias - have built Parthenon (dedicated to the goddess Athena).
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