TEMPLE OF APOLLO SOSIANO

TEMPIO DI APOLLO SOSIANO
Via del Teatro Marcello

Since the year 449 BC there was an altar dedicated to Apollinar
After a plague the temple was built in 431 BC for Apollo Medicus

Restorations in the years 353 and 179 BC
It was rebuilt in full on the year 34 BC by Gaius Sosio after whom the temple was named

Current podium 21.32 x 40 m (67 x 131 feet)

Three columns remain, 14 m (46 feet) high. Originally there were six on the front and three on the sides

Here took place often meetings of the Senate as in the nearby Temple of Bellona
The cella was a museum with paintings and statues
Parts of the original Greek statues of the pediment and other interior elements are now in the museum of the Centrale Montemartini