. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. he days of Peri-cles, remarkable specimens of architec-tural art. The buildings were groupedaround two principal temples, the Parthe-non and the. Erechtheum. Between thesetemples stood the statue of AthenaPromachos (fighter in front), by Phidias,the helmet and spear of which were thefirst objects visible from the sea. Aboutthese center pieces were lesser temples,statues, theaters, fanes, and odea (mu-sic halls). Among the famous buildingson the sides of the Acropolis wer
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. he days of Peri-cles, remarkable specimens of architec-tural art. The buildings were groupedaround two principal temples, the Parthe-non and the. Erechtheum. Between thesetemples stood the statue of AthenaPromachos (fighter in front), by Phidias,the helmet and spear of which were thefirst objects visible from the sea. Aboutthese center pieces were lesser temples,statues, theaters, fanes, and odea (mu-sic halls). Among the famous buildingson the sides of the Acropolis were theDionydac theater and the Odeum ofPericles, and the Odeum, built by HerodesAtticus in honor of his wife, ravages of accident and war andAthenian marble-merchants have largelydestroyed and despoiled these classicworks. See Athens. ACROSTIC, a poetical composition,disposed in such a manner that the ini-tial letters of each line, taken in order,form a persons name or other completeword or words. This kind of poeticaltriflings was very popular with theFrench poets from the time of FrancisI. until Louis THE ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES nently the Acropolis of Athens, to whichthe name is now chiefly applied. TheAcropolis of Athens was the original cityof Athens, later the upper city, as dis-tinguished from the lower, and was built In the Old Testament there are 12psalms written according to this these, the 119th Psalm is the most re-markable; it consists of 22 stanzas, eachof which commences with a Hebrew letter. ACT and is called by its name. Acrosticverse is no longer cultivated by the Allan Poe wrote some strikingacrostics, varying the form with greatingenuity. ACT, in dramatic language, a portionof a play performed continuously, afterwhich the repiesentation is suspended fora little. As early as the time of Horacethere were five acts in a drama, but thisnumber is frequently modified on themodern stage. In pa
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