Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . Fig. 43- Plate XL IX. S. MARIA MAGGIORE—ROME CH. XIIl] ROME 197 Many Greeks were driven from Constantinople by s. Mariain , . , . • 1 n 1 1 Cosmedin the iconoclastic movement in the 8th century, and acolony of them settled in Rome, near the Velabrum,where they were given the church of S. Maria, whichwas called in schola Graeca, or by the new settlers in Cosmedin after a region of their old home inConstantinople. The church was built in 772 byHadrian I on the site of a temple to Ceres, Libera, and La tg^i>«^7w;

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