Crossword-Solution: THESEUM 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The principal of these were the small Ionic temple of Nike Apteros (Wingless Victory), and the Theseum, or temple of Theseus.

The 'Theseum' owes its almost perfect preservation to the fact that during the Middle Ages it was used as a church.] CONSTITUTION OF THE LEAGUE The larger cities in the league agreed to provide ships and crews for a fleet, while the smaller cities were to make their contributions in money.

Ruins of other temples are on the Acropolis, and one better preserved, called the Theseum, stands on a lower hill.

Although the most recent researches have thrown fresh doubt upon the exact site of the Pnyx, and though no traces of the agora remain, yet we may be sure that the Bema from which Pericles sustained the courage of the Athenians during the Peloponnesian war, was placed upon the northern slope looking towards the Propylæa, while the wide irregular space between this hill, the Acropolis, the Areopagus, and the Theseum, must have formed the meeting-ground for amusement and discussion of the citizens at leisure.

The language of Simætha, in Theocritus, brings the younger men before us: their cheeks are yellower than helichrysus with the down of youth, and their breasts shine brighter far than the moon, as though they had but lately left the 'fair toils of the wrestling-ground.' Upon some of the monumental tablets exposed in the burying-ground of Cerameicus and in the Theseum may be seen portraits of Athenian citizens.