Mnesikles

{{Short description|Ancient Athenian architect}} '''Mnesikles''' ({{langx|grc|Μνησικλῆς}}; Latin transliteration: '''Mnesicles''') was an ancient Athenian architect active in the mid 5th century BC, the age of Pericles.<ref name="SpiveySquire2011">{{cite book|author1=Nigel Spivey|author2=Michael Squire|title=Panorama of the Classical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uNKEFjcYc-0C&pg=PA343|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=1 March 2011|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-1-60606-056-8|pages=343–}}</ref>

Plutarch (''Pericles'', 13) identifies him as architect of the Propylaea, the Periclean gateway to the Athenian Acropolis.<ref name="Kleiner2009">{{cite book|author=Fred S. Kleiner|title=Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBrvazPDFoYC&pg=PT149|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=8 January 2009|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-495-57360-9|pages=149–}}</ref><ref name="Heslin2005">{{cite book|author=P. J. Heslin|title=The Transvestite Achilles: Gender And Genre In Statius' Achilleid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3J1iodiPErgC&pg=PA199|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=11 August 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85145-9|pages=199–}}</ref><ref name="Roberts1998">{{cite book|author=John Willoby Roberts|title=City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U8oRnhrGHzAC&pg=PA160|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=18 June 1998|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-16778-9|pages=160–}}</ref>

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