Introduction Rome admired Greek's culture. Therefore, Pantheon is similar to Parthenon. But Parthenon's function is to worship only one venus, Athena. On the contrary, Pantheon's function is to worship several gods in Rome. This difference leads to several differences of both architectures. The way the style and function (use) of each building serves as a typical example of its culture Greeks had developed their culture. Roman was surprised at the highly developed Greek culture. Therefore, Roman imitated Greek culture. The copy culture of Rome manifested in Pantheon. It looks like Parthenon. But there is an important difference in the function of each building. Parthenon was built to worship only one venus, Athena. Athena is the symbol of wisdom, arts, and defense strategy. In many burgs of Greek, people worshiped Athena as the guardian. The name of Parthenon came from Parthenos, which means Virgo. So Parthenon was built on Hill of the Acropolis to enables citizens to watch Parthenon and worship. And Parthenon looks east side because Greek was interested in enlarging their boundaries to the east side (European style, n.d.). In short, Parthenon was built to worship Athena for the defense of their residents and enlargement of their territory. …show more content…
Pantheon looks like as if the copy of Parthenon. But Romans did not imitate the God who was worshiped in Parthenon. Despite the fact that Parthenon is used to worship only one venus Athena, Pantheon is used to worship several gods in Rome. It is said that Agrippa tried to worship Augustus but changed to worship several gods in order to avoid to be criticized. In addition, Romans had believed several gods traditionally (Pantheon (Rome)., n.d.). In Pantheon, in order for Romans to be surrounded by many various gods and spend the time happily (Strange cloud,