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The great circular building that is Agrippa's Parthenon, with its immense shallow dome is the most completely preserved of the monuments of ancient Rome.
The diameter of the cupola has only been surpassed in our own day by the huge span of some of Nervi's concrete domes.
The Roman masterpiece is not however of concrete, but of brickwork and thick mortar laid in horizontal courses.
A Latin inscription on the portico records that the first building of 27 BC was the work of Agrippa:
M. AGRIPPA L. F. CONSUL TERTIUM FECIT.
The Pantheon was dedicated to the gods of the seven planets:
1. Apollo
2. Diana
3. Mercurio
4. Venere
5. Marte
6. Giove
7. Saturno
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