Temple of Bacchus Commentary

 

 

 

 

 This is how the Temple of Bacchus Commentary supposed to look in 150 A.D located in Baalbek, Lebanon. Many historians considered this the best-preserved roman temple of its size. Still in this days people don't know who  the architect that designed was but what we know is that it was dedicated to Bacchus the god of wine during the time of the emperor Antonius Pius. Ironically The Temple of Bacchus commentary is sometimes called ''the small temple'' when it is bigger then the parthenon in greece also is less known than the parthenon. The entrances is decorated with grapes and wine followd by smaller gates that lead to rooms in the second floor there are also columns engaged and the ceiling has representations of crowned ladies that represented cities that financed the building of the temple. Finally an interesting fact is that this temple was visited by the german emperor  nn one of the walls, you can easily recognize the double inscriptions of the German emperor Wilhelm II, who had visited the sanctuary in 1898.  The photo below shows how the temple of bacchus is in this days