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This article concerns the architectural events that took place during the

Achievements
Around 200: reconstruction of the palace of Olympia. Construction of the Bouleuterion de Priène (counsel room) at the beginning of the century.

Around 180-150: architectural transformation of Rome under the influence of Syracuse: construction of the basilica Porcia (184 B.C.), the basilica Æmilia (179 B.C.), the basilica Sempronia (169 B.C.), the basilica Opimia (after 150 B.C.). At the beginning of the century, the Boarium forum was reorganized with the construction of shops under portals. The banks of the Tiber River at the Portunus temple are arranged and filled. The Æmilius bridge is built and its warehouses are completely renovated. Part of the Servian wall is dismantled, especially on the Boarium forum area.
Around 180-160 : construction of the Grand altar of Pergame, with the bas-relief of Gigantomachie .
Around 180: in Jordan, during the reign of Seleucos IV (187-175 B.C.), the Hyrcan dynast began to build his Tyros palace in Arak el-Emir.

174 B.C.: resumption of the work of the Olympian of Athens thanks to the subsidies provided by Antiochos. The Corinthian order is adopted for the first time in a great temple. But the site will be interrupted again and the colossal temple will only be completed under Hadrian.

Around 160: Caton, in his De agri cultura, describes the manufacture of lime. The lime mortar is used in Rome with small rubble (Opus caementicium) to build the warehouses of the port of Rome and the porticus Æmilia, completed in 174 .

Around 150 BC:
Attal II of Pergamus, the pupil of the philosopher Carnead, founded in Athens the portico which bears his name: the stoa of Attalus.
transformation of the theatre of Priène.
146 B.C.: reconstruction of the temples of Jupiter Stator and Junon Regina built on the Champ de Mars for Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus by the Greek architect of Salamin of Cyprus Hermodoros (first marble temples known in Rome).
Around 140: The poet Antipater of Sidon lists the Seven Wonders of the World.
133-232 B.C.: D. Junius Brutus built a temple in Mars on the Flaminius circus by the Greek architect of Salamin of Cyprus Hermodoros.
126-125 B.C.: construction of the Agora of Theophrastos in the island of Delos.
121 B.C.: construction of Opimia Basilica in Rome.

Construction of the Shunga Stupas of Bharhut and Sânchi in India.

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