The entrance to the Acropolis is made by a great gate called the Propylaea. At the front right side and the Temple of
Athena Nike. A large bronze statue of Athena by Phidias originally stood in the center. To the right of where it stood
this sculpture is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (the virgin). To the left and at the end of the Acropolis
is the Erechtheion, with its famous stoa or platform supported by six Caryatids. Only one that can see here is real,
the others are reproductions of original set in the New Acropolis Museum.
In the southern slope of the Acropolis there are the remains of other buildings among which an outdoor theater called Theatre
of Dionysus, where premiered their works Sophocles, Aristophanes and Aeschylus. Most major temples were rebuilt under the
leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460-430 BC). V century BC., the Acropolis took its final form.