Pantheon, Rome

The Pantheon (pronounced /ˈpænθi.ən/ (UK)[1] or /ˈpænθiːɒːn/ (USA), Latin: Pantheon,[nb 1] from Greek: Πάνθειον, an adjective meaning "to every god" (with the Greek word for temple, ἱερόν ["hieron"], understood)) 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.[2] The nearly-contemporary writer (2nd–3rd centuries AD), Cassius Dio, speculated that the name comes either from the statues of so many gods placed around this building, or else from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens.[3] Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, was deconsecrated and turned into a secular monument, the Panthéon of Paris, the generic term pantheon has been sparsely applied to any building in which the illustrious dead are honored or buried.[1]

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