Attica or the attic peninsula is a historical region that encompasses the city of athens the capital of greece.
Attic ancient rome.
Originally the word denoted any portion of a wall above the main cornice.
The decoration of the topmost part of a building was particularly important in ancient greek architecture and this came to be seen as typifying the attica style the earliest example known being that of the monument of thrasyllus in athens.
Attic in architecture story immediately under the roof of a structure and wholly or partly within the roof framing.
Characterized by purity simplicity and elegant wit.
Attic greek is sometimes included in the ionic dialect.
Of the ancient dialects it is the most similar to later greek and is the standard form of the language that is studied in ancient greek language courses.
It is a peninsula projecting into the aegean sea bordering on boeotia to the north and megaris to the west.
There are a lot of depictions of sexy ancient romans.
In classical architecture the term attic refers to a story or low wall above the cornice of a classical façade.
Attic greek is the greek dialect of the ancient city state of athens.
Moreover it became in hellenistic times the language of the macedonian rulers in the middle east and egypt.
Together attic and ionic are the primary influences on modern greek.
In britain an attic in a historic home has revealed a trove of 15th century treasures.
With the ascendance of the athenian empire in the course of the 5th century bc attic became the most prestigious of the greek dialects and as a result was adopted later as the standard language by the macedonian kings.
A theme quickly emerged.
Recently i had occasion to search the stock photography database shutterstock for pictures depicting ancient rome.
The southern tip of the peninsula known as laurion was an important mining region.
Even for a passel of horn dogs like the ancient romans it s a lot.
81 ce at the foot of the palatine hill on the via sacra in the forum romanum rome it commemorates the victories of his father vespasian and brother titus in the jewish war in judaea 70 71 ce when the great city of jerusalem was sacked and the vast riches of its temple plundered.
The arch of titus is a roman triumphal arch which was erected by domitian in c.
The rare items were uncovered during the recent covid 19 lockdown and were discovered thanks to the hard work.
Ancient attica was divided into demoi or municipalities fro.
When in rome even the christian pilgrims enjoyed the baths of caracalla.
Of relating to or characteristic of ancient attica athens or the athenians.