Roman Forum

Roman Forum

100 BCE--300 AD

1362

Built Environment

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

forums (open spaces)

View along Sacred Way toward the Temple of Castor and Pollux with the Arch of Titus in the foreground at the Roman Forum in Italy. "The foreground is occupied by a paved square with monuments to famous people. The temple to the Divine Julius, dedicated in 29BC to the deified Caesar (the first case of political deification in Rome), built in a Hellenistic style, is located in the background on the left; to the right is the temple of Vesta and the house of the Vestal Virgins, guardians of the everlasting flame (the only priestesses in Rome); further to the right is the temple of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux (Greek gods whose cult was brought to Rome in the 5th century BC) dedicated in 6 A.D. Here the office of weights and measures was situated. The podiums of the temples of Caesar and the Dioscuri were often used as orators' platforms and it is in this part of the Forum that the meetings of the comitia took place. On the far right is the Basilica Julia built by Caesar in 54 B.C. Its long faade (101 metres/110 yards) occupies the entire south side of the Forum,"--by John Julius Norwich. The World Atlas of Architecture. p160.

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