The Temple of Apollo Sosianus stands in the Campus Martius in Rome, beside the Theatre of Marcellus. A cult of Apollo existed here by the mid-fifth century BC, and the first temple building was inaugurated in 431 BC after a plague vow made two years earlier. The present name comes from Gaius Sosius, who rebuilt it radically after 34 BC.
The temple was hexastyle, with six columns across the front. It had a travertine core faced with tuff and marble, Corinthian capitals and Carrara marble columns. It was an early large-scale use of marble in Roman public building. Greek sculptures of a battle with the Amazons from its pediment are now in the Capitoline Museums.
Medieval houses covered the ruins until they were cleared in the 1920s and 1930s. Three columns from the Augustan rebuilding still stand at full height.
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