Pantheon

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The Pantheon in Rome

Pantheon (from ancient Greek πᾶν pān "all, total" and θεός theós "God") has four meanings:

  1. Originally the pantheon (or pantheum in Latin ) was the name for an ancient sanctuary dedicated to all gods . The Pantheon in Rome , built in Roman antiquity, is the most famous building of its kind.
  2. Today, temple-like memorial and burial sites of national personalities are also referred to as the Pantheon, in particular the Paris Panthéon , whose architecture is based on the Pantheon in Rome.
  3. In religious studies the term is also used for the totality of deities in a polytheistic religion (see world of gods ).
  4. In a figurative sense, the term can refer to a group of outstanding people, mostly in a historical context or in relation to art and literature.

Web links

Commons : Pantheons  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Pantheon  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Duden online: Pantheon
  2. ↑ Keyword: Pantheon . In: The large art lexicon by PW Hartmann, Neumarkt / Wallersee (AU), accessed on January 1, 2016.