The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina stands in the Roman Forum, and was built by the emperor Antoninus Pius in honor of his wife Faustina, who had died and been deified by the Senate. After his own death, the temple was rededicated to both of them. Its porch has tall Corinthian columns of green-veined marble, and a frieze decorated with griffins and candelabra. In the Middle Ages the temple was turned into a church, now called San Lorenzo in Miranda, which saved it from being quarried for building stone, and a Baroque facade was added to the church in the seventeenth century. It is one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in the Forum.
Before and after
- 132 CEZhang Heng builds the first seismoscope
- 135 CEOrigins of Temple of Venus and Roma
- c. 135 CEConstruction of Castel Sant'Angelo
- 142 CEConstruction of Antonine Wall
- 142 CEOrigins of Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
- 150 CEBirth of Nagarjuna
- c. 150sPtolemy writes the Almagest
- 161 CEOrigins of Odeon of Herodes Atticus
- from 165 CE to 180 CEAntonine Plague
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