Excerpt from A Dictionary of Terms in Art<br><br>Acropolis. A walled city on the summit of a hill; the citadel on the tap of a rock, which usually included the most sacred buildings. The Acropolis at Athens was built on the highest point of the mountain, and contained the famous temple of Minerva (the Parthenon) and the sacred statue of the goddess. It was accessible from one point only. All ancient hill cities in Asia Minor had an Acropolis.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.