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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: 2nd century in architecture, Adamkayalar, Antonine Wall, Arch of Hadrian, Aspendos, Basilica Ulpia, Baths of Trajan, Capo di Bove, Castel Sant'Angelo, Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, Colonne di San Lorenzo, Column of Antoninus Pius, Column of Marcus Aurelius, Crofton Roman Villa, Durres Amphitheatre, Foss Dyke, Hadrian's Gate, Hadrian's Library, Hadrian's Villa, Hadrian's Wall, H d rl k Tower, Jewry Wall, Leahill Turret, Hadrian's Wall, Library of Celsus, Mariamite Cathedral of Damascus, Milan amphitheatre, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Pantheon, Rome, Philopappos Monument, Pike Hill Signal Tower, Plovdiv Roman Stadium, Plovdiv Roman theatre, Plutei of Trajan, Porta Nigra, Pyramid of the Sun, Red Basilica, Roman mausoleum of Fabara, Tarragona Amphitheatre, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Temple of Bacchus, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, Temple of Venus and Roma, The Seven Halls, Trajan's Market, Villa delle Vignacce, Villa of the Quintilii, Woodchester Roman Villa. Excerpt: The Pantheon ( or; Latin: , from Greek: , an adjective understood as " to all gods") is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft). It is one of the best-preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Roman Catholic church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria della Rotonda." The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda. Pantheon is an ancient Greek composite word meaning All Gods: (Pan /" " = meaning all + Theon / " "= meaning "Gods." Cassius Dio, a Roman senator who write in Greek, speculated that the name comes either from the statues of so many gods placed around this building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Genevieve in Paris, was deconsecrated and turned into the secular monument called the Pantheon of Paris, the generic term pantheon has sometimes been applied to other buildings in which illustrious dead are honoured or buried. The Pantheon and the Fontana del Pantheon.In the aftermath of the Battle of Actium (31 BC), Marcus Agrippa built and dedicated the original Pantheon during his third consulship (27 BC). Located in the Campus Martius, at the time of its construction, the area
