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Pompeii: Temple of Venus



Pompeii: Temple of Venus (photo: Athena Review)


Built in 80 BC under Sulla on the west slope of Pompeii, the temple was rebuilt early in the 1c AD. The marble was salvaged after the 79 AD eruption, and only the platform and a few column fragments survive.



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