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Decimus Cossutius
2nd-century BC Roman architect · Architects
Decimus Cossutius was an ancient Roman architect. He is both the first known Roman architect known by name and one of the earliest Romans known to have resided in the city of Athens.
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A Roman citizen from a minor plebeian family, he may have trained in architecture either in Campania or in Greece, and possibly had personal or family business interests in marble quarrying. Around 175 BCE, he was commissioned by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes to continue the construction of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, which had been unfinished since its first phase of construction was abandoned around 510 BCE.
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