Ancient Roman Buildings and Structures in Italy - Ancient Roman Buildings and Structures in Rome, Ancient Roman Triumphal Arches in Italy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 215. Not illustrated. Chapters: Ancient Roman Buildings and Structures in Rome, Ancient Roman Triumphal Arches in Italy, Roman Amphitheatres in Italy, Roman Forts in Italy, Roman Villas in Italy, Temples of Pompeii, Capua, Rimini, Aosta, Pantheon, Rome, Ara Pacis, Monte Testaccio, List of Obelisks in Rome, List of Ancient Monuments in Rome, Villa of the Papyri, Villa Romana Del Casale, Temple of Isis, Larino, Hadrian's Villa, Villa Magna, Sutri, Schola Castra Nova Equitum Singularium, Villa Boscoreale, Solarium Augusti, Villa of the Quintilii, Flavian Amphitheater, Temple of Jupiter, Verona Arena, Stadium of Domitian, Villa of the Mysteries, Horrea Galbae, Ludus Magnus, Casa Romuli, Villa Jovis, Trajan's Market, Villa Poppaea, Saepta Julia, Meta Sudans, Horace's Villa, Settefinestre, Amphitheatre of Pompeii, Porticus Octaviae, Villa of Livia, Septizodium, Tabularium, Colossus of Nero, Capo Di Bove, Diocletian Window, Lateran Baptistery, Macellum Liviae, Castra Praetoria, Milan Amphitheatre, Arches of Trajan, Puteal Scribonianum, House of the Vestals, Villa Publica, Ovile. Excerpt: The Pantheon (pronounced or (UK), or (USA), Latin: , from Greek: , meaning "Every god") is a building in Rome, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD. A near-contemporary writer, Cassius Dio, speculates that the name comes from the statues of many gods placed around the building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Genevieve, Paris, was deconsecrated and turned into a secular monument, the Pantheon, the generic term pantheon may be applied to any building in which illustrious dead are honoured or buried. The building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns (eight i...