All 4 Uses of
pantheon
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The culminating point of this sweep of walls was the Papal gate, that is to say, near the present site of the Pantheon.†
Chpt 1.3.2 *
- , in the Pantheon: Saint Peter of Rome, badly copied (the edifice is awkwardly heaped together, which has not amended its lines);—the Paris of the Republic, in the School of Medicine: a poor Greek and Roman taste, which resembles the Coliseum or the Parthenon as the constitution of the year III.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- That Titan of art piled the Pantheon on the Parthenon, and made Saint-Peter's at Rome.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- It is still the Pantheon on the Parthenon: Saint-Peter's of Rome.†
Chpt 1.5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(pantheon as in: pantheon of great writers) a list of the most important of something -- such as great writers
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, pantheon can refer to a list of all the gods of a religion. It can also refer to a building dedicated to those gods, or to a nation's heroes.
As a proper noun, Pantheon typically refers to an ancient Roman temple dedicated to all the Roman gods.