THE PANTHEON
The word Pantheon can be found in almost every dictionary published. Most assign it the definition of temple dedicated to all the gods. Merriam-Webster's noun is trivial when compared to Hadrian's magnificent structure. The Pantheon, known to the locals as Santa Maria Della Rotunda, is the union of a Greek temple front with a domed rotunda. One year after "Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus's", or Hadrian in English, ascension to the throne in 118 AD, he began construction on the Pantheon to replace Marcus Agrippa's Pantheon of 27 AD destroyed twice by fire,
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