Pelasgic wall

The Pelasgic wall or Pelasgian fortress or Enneapylon (nine-gated) was a monument supposed to have been built by the Pelasgians, after levelling the summit of the rock on the Acropolis of Athens. Thucydides^[1] and Aristophanes^[2] call it "Pelargikon", "Stork wall or place". The Parian Chronicle^[3] mentions that the Athenians expelled the Peisistratids from the "Pelasgikon teichos". Herodotus^[4] relates that before the expulsion of the Pelasgians from Attica, the land under Hymettus had been given to them as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the Acropolis.

References

External links

• The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika by Phillip Harding Page 26 ISBN 978-0-415-33809-7 (2008)
• The topography of Athens: with some remarks on its antiquities by William Martin Leake Page 420 (1831)

Acropolis of Athens
Extant structures	Parthenon Erechtheion Propylaea Temple of Athena Nike Odeon of Herodes Atticus Stoa of Eumenes Sanctuary of Asclepius Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus Aglaureion
Former structures	Pelasgic wall Hekatompedon temple Older Parthenon Old Temple of Athena Perserschutt Statue of Athena Promachos Statue of Athena Parthenos Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia Chalkotheke Pandroseion Arrephorion Altar of Athena Eleusinion Nike of Callimachus Sanctuary of Pandion Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus Odeon of Pericles Frankish Tower
People	Creation Pericles Phidias Ictinus Callicrates Mnesikles Destruction Francesco Morosini Lord Elgin Giovanni Battista Lusieri Reverend Philip Hunt
Museums	Acropolis Museum Old Acropolis Museum Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies Elgin Marbles at the British Museum

Coordinates: 37°58′17″N 23°43′31″E / 37.9714°N 23.7253°E / 37.9714; 23.7253