A forum was a marketplace. Most specialized in certain goods or services. You could loosely equate them with modern shopping malls. However the main forum , the Forum Romanum was mainly a civic center. The treasury, temples, government offices, the rostra and public announcements were all to be found there. At times of special celebrations, public dinners were given there.
The fora were marketplaces. Basically, buying and selling were the daily activities carried out in a forum. However, in the city of Rome itself there were numerous fora with some being general merchandise places and others being specialty marketing centers such as vegetables, meat, etc. Meeting halls or basilicas were many times attached to the larger fora. The main forum in Rome, what we call the Forum Romanum, morphed from a market place to a civic center with temples, the senate house, the rostra, in addition to high priced shops. It was also the center of the empire and all distances were measured from there. In the outlying towns the main forum was also used for trials in addition to commerce and other civic duties.
There were not much activities going on there but a lot of stuff was done there, such as, Shopping, selling, meeting, and even go to school there.
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Augustus built an entirely new Roman Forum. In the Temple of Mars Ultor were statues of Mars, Venus and of the deified Julius Caesar. Augustus often used his own funds to develop new building projects.
A Roman forum would have been in any and all Roman cities. A forum was a marketplace or a town square. Civic buildings, temples, and merchants could all be in the forum especially in a small town. The larger towns and cities generally had several fora with the civic forum being separate from the merchandising forum.
In coins.
they were displayed in the Roman Forum (market place)
The Roman civic centre was the forum civilium. It was distinct and separate from the forum venalium, the commercial forum, or market. The Roman forum, which the Romans called Forum or Forum Magnum (Roman forum is a modern term)was the civic centre of the city of Rome.
The Roman version of an agora was the forum.
the roman forum was in the center of Rome people went there to trade and perform
The Roman Forum was a public center for politics, the economy & religion.
The Forum Romanum.
A Roman Forum is a rectangular square or plaza surronded by ancient ruins. For centuries it this forum was the center of the Roman public life where elections were held or criminal trials.
There probably were spell and potions sold in Rome. However, they would not have been sold at the Forum or Forum Magnum, as the Roman called it, (Roman Forum is a modern term. This forum was not a market. It Was a forum civilium; that is, a civic centre. The forum civilium was distinct and separate from the fora venalia (plural of forum venalium), the commercial fora, or markets.
No. The Forum and the Coliseum were in different parts of the city.
yes. the government met in the forum.
The Roman Forum was suspected to be made around 179AD
the roman forum
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