and explored. If one is to stand right below the opening of the dome, under the coffers, it creates the effect that that person is at the centre of the universe. It breaks "the contract of the server and the served" , as Hadrian had wanted. Hadrian wanted a temple for the Roman universe, he wanted to bring the Roman's together. On many occasions he used the temple as an Imperial audience hall. He discussed urgent business in the Pantheon so that "what was done was made public."
             In the fourth century, a well traveled man named Ammanius Marcellinus experienced the temple, the monument. He saw the structure as more than Hadrian intended; "For him Rome was the temple of the world." Hadrian not only brought Rome closer together, he unintentionally la
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