forum

(noun)

A public square in an ancient Roman city.

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Examples of forum in the following topics:

  • Architecture under the Nervan-Antonines

    • Trajan's Forum was the last of the imperial fora to be built in the city.
    • The forum's main entrance was accessed from the south, near to the Forum of Augustus as well as the Forum of Caesar (which Trajan also renovated).
    • The Forum of Augustus might have been the model for the Forum of Trajan, even though the latter was much larger.
    • Trajan built his forum with the spoils from his conquest of Dacia.
    • The markets follow the shape of the Trajan's forum.

  • Ostia

    • The city is typical of a Roman city, including a large central forum, bath houses , temples, a theatre, barracks for firemen, and apartment buildings.
    • The two central streets of the city, the cardo and decumanius ran north-south and east-west through the city, intersecting at the forum–the center of the city's civic and religious activities.
    • Common features throughout the Empire include the Capitolium, the temple dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, in the forum at the center of the city .
    • Across from the Capitolium in the forum stands a temple dedicated to Augustus and Roma.

  • The Romans After Constantine

    • Parts of ancient Rome, especially the Republican Forum, returned once again to the cow pastures that they originally were at the time of the city's founding, as floods from the Tiber washed them over in debris and sediment .
    • A view of the Roman Forum by Italian engraver, Giambattista Piranesi.
    • This shows what the forum looked like-- an empty cow filed-- during his own time in the mid 18th century CE.

  • Architecture under Hadrian

    • Ostia was a typical of a Roman city, including a large central forum, bath houses, temples, a theatre, barracks for firemen, and apartment buildings.
    • The two central streets of the city, the cardo and decumanus ran north-south and east-west through the city, intersecting at the forum–the center of the city's civic and religious activities.
    • Common features throughout the Empire include the Capitolium, the temple dedicated to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, in the forum at the center of the city.
    • Across from the Capitolium in the forum stands a temple dedicated to Augustus and Roma.
    • One shows him making a sacrifice in one of Rome's oldest forum the Forum Boarium, which was home of some of the city's oldest temples.

  • Architecture under Constantine

    • It stands over the triumphal route before it enters the Republican Forum.
    • This forms a dialogue with the Arch of Titus at the top, overlooking the Forum and the Arch of Septimius Severus, which, in turn, stands at the other end of the Forum before the Via Sacra heads uphill to the Capitolium.
    • When Constantine and Maxentius clashed at the Milvian Bridge, Maxentius was in the middle of building a grand basilica, eventually renamed the Basilica Nova, near the Roman Forum.
    • Parts of ancient Rome, especially the Republican Forum, returned once again to the cow pastures that they originally were at the time of the city's founding, as floods from the Tiber washed them over in debris and sediment.
    • From there the Mese passed on and through the Forum Tauri and then the Forum Bovis, and finally up the Seventh Hill (or Xerolophus) and through to the Golden Gate in the Constantinian Wall.

  • Victory Columns under the Nervan-Antonines

    • Trajan and his architect Apollodorus of Damascus designed and built a large forum complex in the center of Rome.
    • Standing between the libraries of the Forum of Trajan is a 128 foot tall victory column, known as the Column of Trajan.
    • Because of the column's location, nestled between the libraries and the basilica of the Trajan's Forum, the scenes, which are carved in low relief, are small and hard to read.

  • Architecture of the Early Roman Empire

    • In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar began the construction of the Basilica Julia, funded by spoils from the Gallic War, in the Roman forum.
    • This land, located on the hills east of the Forum Romanum, became home to his new palatial structure known as the Domus Aurea, or the Golden House.
    • Following his brother's death, Domitian erected a triumphal arch over the Via Sacra, on a rise as the road enters the Republican Forum.

  • Renaissance Architecture in Venice

    • In the case of Villa Badoer, the open barn, formed by a large circular colonnade, enclosing the front yard in front of the villa, created a space that recalled the ancient idea of the Roman Forum, bringing all campaign activities to gravitate in front of the villa itself.

  • Architecture during the Severan Dynasty

    • Two triumphal arches commissioned by Septimius Severus still stand today: the first at the northwest entrance to the Roman forum, and the second on the main road leading into the city of Leptis Magna, the Roman colony in modern Libya where Septimius Severus was born.
    • This arch visually recalls the triumphal arches of the past that stood in the Roman Forum and expresses the continuity of Septimius Severus's imperial rule and the momentum of the empire.

  • The Julio-Claudians

    • This land, located on the hills east of the Forum Romanum, became home to his new palatial structure known as the Domus Aurea, or the Golden House.