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Inside Pantheon, Rome, Italy. It is one of the best preserved ancient Roman buildings in the world.

Photography by Luigi Di Criscio (@luigidicriscio)

In Latin Pantheum (from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheion) means "common to all the gods." It was built from an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD). After a fire, the current building was commissioned by Emperor Hadrian (117-138).

Agrippa finished the construction of the building called the Pantheon. It has this name, perhaps because it received among the images which decorated it the statues of many gods, including Mars and Venus; but my own opinion of the name is that, because of its vaulted roof, it resembles the heavens.  Cassius Dio, History of Rome 53.27.2

Cassius Dio's uncertainty about the name suggests that "Pantheon" was a nickname, not the formal name of the building.

The portico of the Pantheon at night.

The inscription M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT means: "Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, made [this building] when consul for the third time."

Photography by Jfabrix101 / Wikimedia Commons.

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“If we are the same person before and after we love, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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I'll hold on to this snack until I'm done with my nap (volume warning)

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he is living everyone's dream

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