Talk:Pantheon, Rome

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Can we come up with a better name for this article? Pantheon at Rome? Pantheon in Rome? Roman Pantheon? No, that last one would probably be about the gods. Any other ideas? RickK 05:42, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I've changed this to "Pantheon in Rome", which was the title given in Pantheon. I agree – "Pantheon, Rome" is a horrible name and makes it sound like an American town. —Wereon 14:16, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

What's wrong with this name? It's the Pantheon, it's in Rome. Adam 06:06, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I don't have a big problem with Pantheon, Rome, but I'd vaguely favor The Pantheon. It is, after all, fairly commonly known as the Pantheon, not just one of them. The general disambig. page could still be at Pantheon (there's several other instances where Blah is a disambig. page and The Blah is a particular page). --Delirium 06:09, Feb 18, 2004 (UTC)

I'd go for The Pantheon RickK 06:11, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The Pantheon in Paris is also called The Pantheon. It will look a little presumptuous to claim a monopoly of the name for Rome - particularly since The Pantheon is the official name of the Paris one, whereas it is only a popular name for the Church of the Mary and all the Martyr Saints in Rome. Adam 06:58, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Didn't the Barberini Popes order that the bronze work from the Pantheon be melted down to be used in making the baldachin in St. Peter's Basilica. There was a saying, "Ciò che non hanno fatto i barbari hanno fatto i Barberini" or similar (What the barbarians didn't do, the Barberini did). It would be good to verify and add this. MPolo 13 Aug 2004

I made an edit to this page before I was a registered user (the one about Hadrian keeping the same wording in the inscription after rebuilding) and it was kept. Is there any way I can retrospectivly get this on to the "my contributions" list now I have a user name, etc? Thanks. Jaimzc 26 Oct 2004

May I suggest another name? Pantheon (Rome), so it is easier to drop the (Rome) bit when it is necessary.--Panairjdde 09:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Santa Maria ad Martyres

This is just to explain my reverting what was a thoughtful and well-intentioned change, from "Santa Maria ad Martyres" to "Sancta Maria ad Martyres"; now back to "Santa" with no C.

The Italian name of the church is in Italian — not as obvious as it might sound, since one or two churches in Rome have no Italian name (the church of Domine Quo Vadis? comes to mind, complete with its question mark) — thus "Santa Maria" with no C. The "ad Martyres" bit is indeed Latin, though, and you'd 'spect "Sancta"; but alas for system for all of us, it doesn't work that way.... Some churches in Rome named on similar principles do have distinct Italian and Latin names (here the church of S. Pietro in Vincoli = S. Petri ad Vincula is a good example), but others, even in Italian, keep a hybrid name, and this is the case here. (Yet others, one can't tell, since the Italian and the Latin are the same, as S. Maria in Via Lata).

The same hybrid naming occasionally applies to Italian geographical names; there is, for example, a hamlet in Umbria called "S. Pietro Aquaeortus", in which Peter speaks Italian but the springs bubble away in Latin. The situation is much more frequent in England, with names like Lyme Regis, Cerne Abbas, etc. — Best, Bill 22:32, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oop. I was formatting a new illus. at the same time and missed this. I thought: Sancta Maria ad Martyres" or "Santa Maria ai Martiri." Reasonable, but wrong. I'll fix my blunder. --Wetman 22:36, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

yes

I've found a nice photo of the bronze doors here:

Am in the process of tracking down the copyright owner for permission to add to this article...

Images

I removed a couple of images, since there are already a lot of them, in comparison to the article lenght. If you think your images deserve to be published, add them to wikicommons' page on Commons:Pantheon (Roma).--Panairjdde 09:16, 17 May 2005 (UTC)