Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 504
eight feet by sixty-seven, having fluted columns on eachside, and the sanctum, or place for the altar and statue, occupiesa space of twenty-nine feet deep at the western end and consid-erably raised above the floor of the nave. Such were the ar-rano^ements of this vast maOTificent edifice. It mav… … so o <o CO M D 474 PANTHEON AT ROME. erected by INI. Agrippa, the friend of Augustus, in immediateconnection with the Thermae, built and dedicated to JupiterUltor by him. This building, which embodied, as it were, thehighest aspirations of Roman national pride and power, was com-pleted,…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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