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English to Burmese: Acropolis
Source text - English Acropolis
An `acropolis’ is any citadel or complex built on a high hill. The name derives from the
Greek Akro, high or extreme/extremity or edge, and Polis, city, translated as 'High City’,
'City on the Edge’ or 'City in the Air’, the most famous being the Acropolis of Athens,
Greece, built in the 5th century BCE. Though the word is Greek in origin, it has come to
designate any such structure built on a high elevation anywhere in the world. The Castle
Rock in Edinburgh, Scotland, for example, was fortified as early as 850 BCE and would be
known as an acropolis, as would be those cities of the Maya Civilization which fit that
definition, even if they were not built on a natural elevation. Although there were other city-
states in ancient Greece boasting an impressive acropolis (such as Thebes, Corinth and, most
notably, at Kolona on the Island of Aegina), and the designation 'acropolis’ was also used in
Ancient Rome for a series of buildings set on a higher elevation than the surrounding
geography.
Athens Acropolis
The Acropolis of Athens was planned, and construction begun, under the guidance of the
great general and statesman Pericles of Athens. Over two years of detailed planning went into
the specifications and contracting the labour for the Parthenon alone, and the first stone was
laid on 28 July 447 BCE, during the Panathenaic festival. Wishing to create a lasting
monument which would both honour the goddess Athena (who presided over Athens) and
proclaim the glory of the city to the world, Pericles spared no expense in the construction of
the Acropolis and, especially, the Parthenon, hiring the skilled architects Callicrates,
Mnesikles, and Iktinos and the sculptor Phidias (recognized as the finest sculptor in the
ancient world who created the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of The Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World) to work on the project. According to the historian Pedley, “the work…was
carried out under the supervision of Phidias and he was in charge of the whole of Pericles’
scheme” (251). Hundreds of artisans, metal workers, craftspeople, painters, woodcarvers, and
literally thousands of unskilled labourers worked on the Acropolis.
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