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Roman forums or fora as they are called n the plural, were market and gathering places, not the discussion panels that the word means today. The Roman fora were really not made of anything in themselves as they were open squares at various places in a town which were used for trade. Shops, temples, porticoes and basilicas could and did grow around them and most times the town fathers paved the open square. In the Forum Romanum in Rome, there was a speakers platform called the rostra which was a platform for political speeches, some trials in the early republic, and the reading of senatorial decrees. Other cities followed this same pattern of building civic centers around a forum or town square.
There were two types of fora: the forum civilium, the civic forum or forum for public affairs, and the forum venalium, the mercantile forum or market. The city of Rome had six fora civilia (plural of forum civilium) and seven fora venalia (plural of forum venalium). Inscriptions or quotes related to another seven for a have been found, but nothing is known about them.
The oldest forum was the Roman Forum which the Romans called Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. This was a forum civilium. It is likely that the originally it also acted as a market. However, this changed both because the Romans adopted the Greek idea of separating the area of civic activity from the areas of commercial activities and because more and more space was needed to accommodate commercial activities. Basically, the Roman Forum was the city centre. It was the political and judicial centre of the city. It had the comitium, the area where the assemblies met to vote, the senate house, the rostrum, which was used for public speeches, the tabularium (public record office), public buildings (basilica/baslicae), several important temples, and the residence of the head of Roman religion.
There were several fora venalia. The Forum Boarium, the cattle market, was the oldest one and was already there at the time of Rome's third king. It was by the river Tiber and the port and west of the Capitoline and Palatine hills. Other fora venalia were built later: the Forum Piscarium for fish and Forum Cuppedinis for delicatessen (both between the Sacra Via and the Argiletum to the east of the Forum), the Forum Vinarium for wine (between Aventine Hill and the Tiber), and the Forum Pistorium for bread. Two were in the Campus Martius (Field of Mars), an area Rome expanded into north of the older city: the Forum Holitorium for vegetables, herbs and oil (in the southern part) and the Forum Suarium for pork (in the northern part).
More fora civilia were also built. The Forum of Caesar, which had a large square, the temple of Venus Genitix, the basilica Argentaria, the Atrium Libertatis (the archive of the censors) and tabernae (shops). The Forum of Augustus, which had a large square with porticos on the sides along its length, the temple of Mars Ultoris, and triumphal arches. This forum became the seat of the judicial activities of the Praetor (chief of justice). The Forum of Trajan had a large square with porticos and an equestrian statue of Trajan, a smaller square with the Column of Trajan and the basilica Ulpia. The Atrium Libertatis was transferred in a wing of the basilica. This forum was an administrative centre.
The Forum of Trajan and the Forum of Augustus, (along the east side of the Roman Forum) form a part of a row of fora which are now called Imperial Fora (fora a built by emperors). Among these there are also the Forum of Nerva, which had a square and the temple of Minerva, and the Forum of Vespasian or of the Peace which had the Temple of the Peace, a square with porticos and a garden, and a Greek and a Latin library. This forum lost its public function by the fourth century and became occupied by workshops.
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