Cocceius Auctus
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Lucius Cocceius Auctus (1st century BC and 1st century AD)<ref name="UlrichQuenemoen2013">Template:Cite book</ref> was a Roman architect employed by Octavian's strategist (and intended successor) Agrippa to excavate the subterranean passageways known as the crypta neapolitana connecting modern-day Naples and Pozzuoli and the Grotta di Cocceio, connecting Lake Avernus and Cumae.<ref name="Oleson2010">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="BilottaFlora2013">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Irby2016">Template:Cite book</ref> Cocceius was responsible for the conversion of the Capitolium in Pozzuoli into a Temple of Augustus with the backing of the merchant Lucius Calpurnius. Cocceius Auctus also built the original Pantheon in Rome.
Further reading
- Adam, Jean-Pierre. La construction romaine (3rd edition), Picard, Paris (France), Template:ISBN, 1984; pp. 306–307.
- Lamprecht, Heinz-Otto. Opus Caementitium (4th edition), Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf (Germany), Template:ISBN, 1993; pp. 229.