Forum Romanum

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Forum Romanum
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• Important differences between Roman Forum and
  Imperial Fora
• Roman Forum developed over long period of time
  irregular spaces, bits added on
• Imperial Fora deliberate pre-set according to
  canons of regularity and harmony

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• Caesar
• Reigned 49-44 BC

• One of historys greatest military strategists
• First Triumvirate

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• Emperor Augustus
• Reigned 27 BC-19 AD

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• Emperor Vespasian
• Reigned 69-79 AD

• Imperial expansion
• Responsible for Colosseum, public baths, forum

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Emperor Vespasian and the goddess Fortuna
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Temple of Peace

• Not known to have a civil function not
  classified as a true forum, simply called the
  Temple of Peace until the late Empire
• Rectangular design of 110 x 135m
• Most of the site was open space with formal
  gardens

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Temple of Peace Inside

• Building began after the sack of Jerusalem 71 AD
  inside were housed the Seven-Branched
  Candlestick, Ark of the Covenant
• Housed some of the greatest examples of Greek
  painting and sculpture, as well as a library
• 203-211 AD Septimius Severus mounted Forma Urbis
  Romae on temple wall

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• Domitian
• Reigned 81-96 AD

• Nerva
• Reigned 96-98 AD

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Forum Transitorium

• Emperor Domitian wanted to unify the Imperial
  complex and the irregular space between the
  Temple of Peace and the Forum of Caesar and
  Augustus
• Though Domitian initially built the forum, he
  died before it was completed and Emperor Nerva
  took the credit for it

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Last remaining columns doorframe from Middle Ages
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• Emperor Trajan
• Reigned 98-117 AD

• Extensive building programs
• Numerous military campaigns

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Resources

• La Rocca, Eugenio. The Imperial Fora. Rome
  Progetti museali editore, 1995.
• "The Forum Area." Imperial Fora Official Website.
  1999. Comune di Roma. lthttp//www.capitolium.org/e
  ng/fori/fori.htmgt.
• Tomlinson, Richard. From Mycenae to
  Constantinople The Evolution of the Ancient
  City. New York Routledge, 1992.
• Images
• http//shot.holycross.edu/courses/displayimg?photo
  id1999.03.0438
• http//www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/forumau
  g_model1.jpg
• Imperial Fora diagram created by M. G. Conde
  (20.03.2008)