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	Dr. J's Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike
		The Temple of Athena Nike on the Nike Bastion.
		The frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike depicts the
		Entryway to remains of 6th century temple, destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC, directly beneath the Temple of Athena Nike.
	people.hsc.edu /drjclassics/sites/acropolis/athenanike.shtm (494 words)

	Athens Acropolis: Discover the sacret place of Acropolis
		During the classical period (450-330 B.C) three major in importance temples were erected on the ruins of earlier ones: the Parthenon, the Erechteion and the Temple of Nike, dedicated to Athena Parthenos, Athena Polias, and Athena-Apteros Nike.
		The Temple of Athena Nike used to house a statue of the goddess Athena who was holding a pomegranate, symbol of fertility, in her right hand and a helmet, symbol of war, in her left hand.
		The south wing was the antichamber to the Temple of Athena Nike and the ceiling of the Propylaea's central hall was painted with gold and colourful decoration.
	www.athens-360.com /acropolis.htm (1990 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike
		From several ancient accounts and by Pausanias we know the statue of Athena Nike in its cella was made of wood and held a pomegrade in the right hand and a helmet in the left.
		The temple's ratio of the column height to its length is 7:1 instead of the customary 9:1 of other Ionic temples.
		The frieze was removed and placed in the Acropolis museum, and the temple dismantled completely once again to replace the corroded concrete floor and the iron beams that were present as the result of previous reconstructions.
	www.ancient-greece.org /architecture/athena-nike.html (732 words)

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		The size of the temple was imposed by the confined space, but the architect succeeded in creating a small temple in which architectural grace did not entail the sacrifice of grandeur, and elegance was achieved without the loss of tectonic stability.
		It is a small amphiprostyle Ionic temple which rises gracefully on the edge of the rock, where the Athenians worshipped the goddess of victory expressing their hopes for a new triumph in the war of those years when they were fighting desperately for victory on land and sea against the Spartans and their allies.
		The representations on the frieze of the temple of Athena Nike recalled the historical battle of Plataiai where the Greeks decisevely defeated the Persians.
	www.evere.co.uk /d'evere/athens/00/19.htm (255 words)

	Athena Nike
		The Temple of Athena Nike was an expression of Athens' ambition to be the leading Greek city state in the Peloponnese.
		The Temple of Athena Nike is a tetrastyle (four column) Ionic structure with a colonnaded portico at both front and rear facades (amphiprostyle), designed by the architect Kallikrates.
		Nike was originally the "winged victory" godess (see the winged Nike of Samothrace) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wing-less victory), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Temples/AthenaNike.html (518 words)

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		Her temple was the earliest Ionic temple on the Acropolis was compensated by its prominent position on a steep bastion at the south east corner of the Acropolis, to the right of the entrance (propylaea).
		The Temple of Athena Nike was an expression of Athens' ambition to be the leading Greek city state in the Peloponnese.
		Nike was originally the "winged victory" goddess (see the winged Nike of Samothrace) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wing-less victory), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Athena_Nike (653 words)

	Nike - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nike, Inc., athletic shoe and apparel company that manufactures and markets its products in the United States and in more than 100 other countries....
		Nike, in Greek mythology, goddess of victory, daughter of the Titan Pallas and the river Styx.
		Nike of Samothrace, a Greek statue from about 200 bc, portraying Nike, the personification of victory.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Nike.html (88 words)

	Dr. J's Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Temple of Athena Nike on the Nike Bastion.
		The frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike depicts the
		Entryway to remains of 6th century temple, destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC, directly beneath the Temple of Athena Nike.
	www.lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/sites/acropolis/athenanike.shtm (494 words)

	Acropolis of Athens - Parthenon, Erectheio, Temple of Athena - Nike, Prolypaea, Acropolis museum
		The inscriptions on the numerous and precious offerings to the sanctuary of Athena (marble korai, bronze and clay statuettes and vases) indicate that the cult of the city's patron goddess was established as early as the Archaic period (650-480 B.C.).
		During the Classical period (450-330 B.C.) three important temples were erected on the ruins of earlier ones: the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, and the Temple of Nike, dedicated to Athena Parthenos, Athena Polias, and Athena-Apteros Nike, respectively.
		The two pediments of the temple are decorated with mythological scenes: the east, above the building's main entrance, shows the birth of Athena, and the west, the fight between Athena and Poseidon for the name of the city of Athens.
	www.tourtripgreece.gr /athens_guide/archaelogical/01.php (920 words)

	Dr. J's Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Temple of Athena Nike on the Nike Bastion.
		The frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike depicts the
		Entryway to remains of 6th century temple, destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC, directly beneath the Temple of Athena Nike.
	people2.hsc.edu /drjclassics/sites/acropolis/athenanike.shtm (494 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike
		The Temple of Athena Nike began its second restoration in 1998 and is currently being restored, a complicated process in which each stone is treated individually.
		The Temple of Athena Nike was a place of worship in which the people prayed for victory during their battles.
		Inside the temple, there was an altar and a marble statue of Athena, which held a helmet in one hand and a pomegranate, the Greek symbol of fertility, in the other.
	faculty.saintleo.edu /reynolds/HON150-F03/ClassWork/AthensOnLine/AthenaNike.htm (425 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike - Project Athinai
		A sanctuary of Athena Nike was initialy established on the southwest bastion in 566 BC.
		The west face of the altar of Athena Nike was located some 1.7 m to the east of the platform of the temple.
		Each of the three sides of the balustrade contained a figure of Athena Nike on her throne surrounded by Nikai in various poses: assembling throphies, conducting cattle to the sacrifice...
	www.kronoskaf.com /vr/index.php?title=Temple_of_Athena_Nike&printable=yes (1387 words)

	Athena Nike (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The decision to build Athena Nike was an expression of Athens's ambitions to be a world power as opposed to Persia.
		The frieze on the temple displays the decisive victory over the Persians at the Battle of Plataea and a meeting between the gods Athena, Zeus and Poseidon.
		The meeting of the gods signifies Athenian religious beliefs and if the temple was to be worshipped their may have been hope of creating favour with the gods which would have been necessary to 5th Century Athenians during the current political climate.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/at/Athena%20Nike.htm (281 words)

	The Temple of Athena Nike (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The little Ionic temple of Athena Nike rises on its high pedestal as an elegant counterpoint to the monumental Propylaea.
		It is an amphiprostyle temple with four columns in antis in the front and rear.
		The temple was probably built in 427 B.C. and commissioned by Pericles shortly before his death.
	www.bhsroe.k12.il.us /Depue/staff/bartoj/WHWEB/02PwrPnts/Athens/sld004.htm (102 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheum
		Athena brought forth an olive tree (there is still a little tree in front of the temple!) and Poseidon smote the earth and brought forth sea-water.
		To find a temple outside the sanctuary gates is unusual, and the fact that its position never strikes one as strange is just another tribute to the skill with which the proportions of the building are fitted to the site.
		The spot must have been sacred to Athena from quite early times and was associated with her in her victorious aspect as "Athena Nike." Then, as the process of differentiation continued, the precinct was said to be sacred to Victory, and Athena's name was dropped.
	madeinatlantis.com /athens/temple_athena_nike_erechtheum.htm (1250 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike, Athens, Greece - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Temple of Athena Nike, Athens, Greece - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The Temple of Athena Nike is part of the Acropolis in the city of Athens.
		Built around 420 bc, it is an excellent example of a classical temple, with a frieze around the top and ionic columns.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461511915/Temple_of_Athena_Nike_Athens_Greece.html (57 words)

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		The two pediments of the temple are decorated with mythological scenes: the east, above the building's main entrance, shows the birth of Athena, and the west, the fight between Athena and Poseidon for the name of the city of Athens.
		In the 1950's it was extended towards the east and the exhibition was rearranged by the archaeologist I. Meliades.
		Temple of Poseidon is as the crown of the cape, surrounded by a double fortification wall with Doric propylaia and porticoes.
	www.travel-guide-greece.com /greece-guide/Athens/Athens.asp (1697 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis
		At the Acropolis there is an ancient sanctuary dedicated to Athena as the bringer of victory (Nike) on the spur of rock on the south side of the Propylaia - a rocky platform outside the Mycenaean walls.
		The temple was built in 432-421, after the completion of the Parthenon and the Propylaia.
		In Turkish times (1686) the temple was thrown down to use the bastion as an artillery position, from which Ludwig Ross disengaged it in 1836.
	www.planetware.com /athens/acropolis-temple-of-athena-nike-gr-ath-athni.htm (253 words)

	WebAcropol : Temple of Athena Nike
		The size of the temple was imposed by the confined space, but the architect succeeded in creating a small temple in which architectural grace did not entail the sacrifice of grandeur, and elegance was achieved without the loss of tectonic stability.
		It is a small amphiprostyle Ionic temple which rises gracefully on the edge of the rock, where the Athenians worshipped the goddess of victory expressing their hopes for a new triumph in the war of those years when they were fighting desperately for victory on land and sea against the Spartans and their allies.
		The representations on the frieze of the temple of Athena Nike recalled the historical battle of Plataiai where the Greeks decisevely defeated the Persians.
	www.ne.jp /asahi/daikannw/network/webacropol/nike_temple.html (255 words)

	World Architecture Images- Greece- The Acropolis
		It is thought that the so-called Doerpfeld foundations might have belonged to this temple, which may have been sacred not to Polias but to Athena Parthenos (Virgin), at least for as long as the Polias "Bluebeard" temple stood.
		Between the temple of Athena Nike and the Parthenon there was the temenos of Artemis Brauronia, the goddess represented as a bear and worshipped in the deme of Brauron.
		At the center of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin).
	www.essential-architecture.com /EUROPE/GREECE/GR-ATH-001.htm (1989 words)

	Temple of Athena Nike (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The temple of Athena Nike is located on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
		The roof was built by carpenters, joiners, and metalworkers After the temple was standing, excess marble and irregularities were chiselled off, fluting was smoothed, and joins were concealed.
		The cult statue inside the temple was also often made of gold, ivory or marble.
	members.tripod.com /parasitic_screaming/athenanike.html (293 words)

	athena nike temple - Jobs69 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Athena was also a guardian of cities, notably Athens, where the Parthenon was erected as her temple.
		It includes pieces from major monuments such as the temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion on the akropolis at Athens, the temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, the Mausoleum at...
		With the impressive Parthenon temple perched on the summit, the Acropolis is a rocky plateau...
	www.jobs69.co.uk /information/athena-nike-temple.html (289 words)

	temple of nike athena (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Temple of Nike Athena, built in 448 B.C., is probably the most famous example of an amphirostyle temple, where there are just columns on the front and back porticoes.
		The temple was dedicated to the goddess of victory, Athena Nike, after the Greek victory over Persia.
		The frieze of the temple depicts the battle of Plataiai where the Greeks defeated the Persians.
	www.urbana.k12.oh.us /699/jl/temple_of_nike_athena.htm (121 words)

	WELCOME TO ATHENS - Places To Go-A K R O P O L I S-Parthenon,Erechtheion,Temple of Athena Nike,Propylaia
		The temple, built on the remains of an older Mycenaean wall, offers excellent views across the surrounding landscape, and this location was prized by the Ottomans, who tore down the structure to build a defensive battery.
		The Parthenon was dedicated to Athena and means Temple of the Virgin-Athena in her guise as protector of the city, goddess of wisdom and justice.
		A hole was left in the ceiling of the temple since the belief at the time This triple-headed demon was that a lightning strike is a prized display in the should never be closed off Akropolis Museum from the sky.
	www.akropol.net /places_to_go/akropolis.htm (2522 words)

	The Acropolis of Athens
		This small temple stands on a platform that overlooks the islands of Saronic Gulf and used to house a statue of Athena.
		From a temple it became a church, a mosque and finally as a storage facility for Turkish gunpowder.
		Athena was declared the victor and the great city of Athens was named for her while Poseidon was given a small village in Syros after it was discovered he had merely ruptured a water main.
	www.athensguide.com /acropolis.html (2534 words)

	The Temple of Athena Nike
		The decision to bring Athena Nike to Athens and to provide her with a fitting abode was an expression of Athens’ ambitions as a world power in opposition to Persia.
		The temple of Athena Nike is unusual in several respects.
		Not only is it the first temple on the Acropolis to be built in the Ionic style, and one of the few exemplars of an amphiprostyle temple in all of Greece: what made it truly unique was the unit by which it was planned, which turns out to be the Egyptian foot of 300 mm.
	www.metrum.org /key/athens/nike.htm (471 words)

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