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44–29 BC. The Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia) is the third named curia, or senate house, in the ancient city of Rome. It was built in 44 BC, when Julius Caesar replaced Faustus Cornelius Sulla 's reconstructed Curia Cornelia, which itself had replaced the Curia Hostilia. Caesar did so to redesign both spaces within the Comitium and the Roman ...
The Roman Senate (Latin: Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.With different powers throughout its existence it lasted from the first days of the city of Rome (traditionally founded in 753 BC) as the Senate of the Roman Kingdom, to the Senate of the Roman Republic and Senate of the Roman Empire and eventually the Byzantine Senate of ...
The Curia Cornelia was a place where the Roman Senate assembled beginning c. 52 BC. [ 1] It was the largest of all the Curiae (Senate Houses) built in Rome. Its construction took over a great deal of the traditional comitium space and brought the senate building into a commanding location within the Roman Forum as a whole.
Since the Roman Kingdom, the meeting-house of the Roman senate was known as the curia. The original meeting place was said to have been a temple built on the spot where the Romans and Sabines laid down their arms during the reign of Romulus (traditionally reigned 753–717 BC). The institution of the senate was always ascribed to Romulus ...
Founded. 7-4th century BC. The Comitium ( Italian: Comizio) was the original open-air public meeting space of Ancient Rome, and had major religious and prophetic significance. [1] The name comes from the Latin word for "assembly". [2] The Comitium location at the northwest corner of the Roman Forum was later [vague] lost in the city's growth ...
v. t. e. The Senate of the Roman Empire was a political institution in the ancient Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Republic, the constitutional balance of power shifted from the Roman Senate to the Roman Emperor. Beginning with the first emperor, Augustus, the Emperor and the Senate were technically two co-equal branches of government.
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum ( Italian: Foro Romano ), is a rectangular forum ( plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
Builder. Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Founded. 62 BC. The Curia of Pompey, sometimes referred to as the Curia Pompeia, [1] was one of several named meeting halls from Republican Rome of historic significance. [2] A curia was a designated structure for meetings of the senate. [3] The Curia of Pompey was located at the entrance to the Theater of Pompey .