Roman Forum Ruins

Roman forum

• The main marketplace and business center
• Banking, trading, shopping and marketing
• It was used for public speaking 
• Religious ceremonies and festivals 

Roman forum

• Shrines developed into the Republic's formal Comitium (assembly area) 
• The archaic Comitium was replaced by the larger adjacent Forum
• The focus of judicial activity moved to the new Basilica Aemilia
• 130 years later, Julius Caesar built the Basilica Julia, along with the new Curia Julia
• People could gather for commercial, political, judicial, religious pursuits

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roman forum

• The Roman Forum came into existence at a crossing of roads
• The location between the inhabited hills of the Palatine, the Capitoline and the Quirinal,
• Etruscans were first to create a unity out of the settlements and start an urban culture
• The Etruscans were used to a central square for business

Roman forum

• Roman Kingdoms earliest shrines built in southeastern edge 
• The Regia, and the Temple of Vesta and Vestal Virgins
• In the northwest archaic shrines were built 
• The Umbilicus Urbis and the Vulcanal (Shrine of Vulcan)

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RUins

• Arch of Augustus
• Arch of Septimius Severus
• Arch of Titus

ruins

• Temple of Antoninus & Faustina
• Umbilicus Urbis
• Three Trees

ruins

• Temple of Julius Caesar 
• Tabularium

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work cited

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Forum
• http://www.roman-sites.com/rome/romanforum.htm
• http://intranet.grundel.nl/thinkquest/ hoofd_his&rel.html