ἀκρόπολις: Difference between revisions

|Definition=poet. ἀκρό-πτολις, εως, ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[upper]] or [[higher city]]; hence, [[citadel]], [[castle]], ἐς ἀκρόπολιν <span class="bibl">Od.8.494</span> (in Il. only [[divisim]], <b class="b3">ἄκρη πόλις</b>, v. [[ἄκρος]] <span class="bibl">1.1</span>), cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>7.49</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>240</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.84</span>, etc.; as seat of tyranny, <span class="bibl">Ph.1.401</span>,<span class="bibl">417</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> esp. the <span class="title">Acropolis</span> of Athens, <span class="title">IG</span>1.58, al., <span class="bibl">And.1.76</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt. 1.60</span>, <span class="bibl">8.51</span>); which served as treasury, <span class="bibl">Th.2.13</span>; hence <b class="b3">ἀνενεχθῆναι εἰς ἀκρόπολιν, γεγράφθαι ἐν ἀκροπόλει</b> to be entered as a state-debtor, <span class="bibl">D.58.19</span>,48; freq. without Art., as And.l.c., D.ll. cc.; at Erythrae, <span class="title">IG</span>1.11. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., <b class="b3">ἀ. καὶ πύργος ἐὼν δήμῳ</b>, of a person, <span class="bibl">Thgn.233</span>; <b class="b3">ἀ. Ἑλλάνων</b>, of Corinth, <span class="bibl">Simon.137</span>; γῆν Δελφίδ' . . Φωκέων ἀκρόπτολιν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Or.</span> 1094</span>; [[stronghold]], <b class="b3">τῆς ψυχῆς, τοῦ σώματος</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>560b</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>670a26</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>70a</span>; Pythag., of <b class="b2">seven, Theol. Ar</b>.<span class="bibl">44</span>.</span>