Comment 85036

By Mahesh_P_Butani (registered) - website | Posted January 10, 2013 at 01:46:56 in reply to Comment 84908

LOL-aoa:

Well, at least you have some appreciation for one old building!! But do you know its history? It may not be what you think. It was destroyed a few times... by nature and the foolishness of men. And yet those who knew the value of history, kept rebuilding it.

"pantheum vetustate corruptum cum omni cultu restituerunt" ('with every refinement they restored the Pantheon worn by age')... and vandalism much similar to what you are suggesting, managed to strip it bare:

"Remaining at Rome twelve days he pulled down everything that in ancient times had been made of metal for the ornament of the city, to such an extent that he even stripped off the roof of the church [of the blessed Mary], which at one time was called the Pantheon, and had been founded in honour of all the gods and was now by the consent of the former rulers the place of all the martyrs; and he took away from there the bronze tiles and sent them with all the other ornaments to Constantinople. ~ Paul the Deacon

In spite of all of this, why did it keep getting rebuilt?

Mahesh P.Butani

Comment edited by Mahesh_P_Butani on 2013-01-10 01:49:41

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