Temple of Augustus and Livia

The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico[footnotes 1] hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in the center of the ancient city of Vienne, also corresponding to the center of the modern city, in the French department of Isère and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

[2][3] During its construction, the temple was dedicated to the imperial cult, to honor the Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia.

AD, by comparison with the Maison Carrée in Nîmes, the Roman temple of Château-Bas in Vernègues, and other buildings in Narbonnaise.

According to specialists of ancient ornamentation, the more naturally treated capitals were carved around the middle of 1st century, which corresponds to the first uses of choin in the city.

With the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Christianization of Gaul, the temple became the parish church of Sainte-Marie-la-Vieille then Notre-Dame-de-la-Vie until the French Revolution.