Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 490
y-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-rangements of this vast magnificent edifice. It may… … 474 PANTHEON AT ROME. erected by M. 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, according to the original…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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