Crossword-Solution: ERECHTHEUM
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Temple on the Acropolis, from 409 B.C. | 1 answer |
| Acropolis temple | 2 answers |
| Temple ___ | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ERECHTHEUM (5)
The only other monument on the summit of the Acropolis which it is necessary to describe is the Erechtheum, or temple of Erechtheus.
The original Erechtheum was burnt by the Persians, but the new temple was erected on the ancient site.
The building of the new Erechtheum was not commenced till the Parthenon and Propylaea were finished, and probably not before the year preceding the breaking out of the Peloponnesian war.
The Erechtheum, on the contrary, though oblong in shape and having a portico at the eastern or principal front, had none at its western end, where, however, a portico projected north and south from either side, thus forming a kind of transept.
The Attic-Ionic cornice never has dentels, unless the cornice of the Caryatid portico of the Erechtheum ought to be reckoned as an instance (Fig.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1963–1970).