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The Acropolis


Classical layout of the Acropolis







view of the Acropolis in 1755
(The Ant. of Athens, Stuart & Revett, 1787)



view of the Acropolis in 1785
(Museum Worsleyanum)



The Geometry and Optics of Ancient Architecture,
J. Pennethorne (1878)



William R. Shepherd's plan of the Acropolis, 1926.


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