The PANTHEON, a glory of the Eternal City, is the most perfect of all classical monuments in Rome. The inscription on the architrave of the portico «M. Agrippa L. F. Cos tertium fecit» refers to a temple erected by Agrippa in 27 B.C. to the tutelary divinities of the Julia Family. For a long time, it was thought that the Pantheon, as it is today, was the original temple of Agrippa. In reality Agrippa's building was destroyed by a great fire in A.D. 80. Recent studies have proved that the present Pantheon is a reconstruction of the time of Hadrian. Other alterations were made at the time of Septimius Severus and of Caracalla. On the 6th March 609, Boniface IV, wi ... continue