All 3 Uses of
pantheon
in
The House of Hades
- The room reminded her of the Pantheon in Rome, except this place had been decorated in Hades Modern.†
p. 536.2 *
- As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions.†
p. 536.4
- At the apex of the ceiling, where the Pantheon's skylight would've been, a circle of pure black stone gleamed, as if to reinforce the sense that there was no way out of this place—no sky above, only darkness.†
p. 536.6
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.