The senate met in the "Curia" or senate house, when they had one. More than one of them burnt down and they were slow in rebuilding. If they didn't have a senate house, they would meet in any of the various temples surrounding the forum.
The Roman senate was an advisory body made up of at first patricians, but then other classes were admitted if they met certain criteria.
The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.The ancient Roman consul was a political office, not a collective body. The consuls could be described as the leaders of the senate. They met wherever the senate was meeting. They met in the "Curia" or senate house when they had one (it had been burnt down a few times). If not in the curia, the senate would meet at any gathering point the consul chose. This was usually a temple.
In the Baths, in bedrooms, at dinner parties, frequently erroneously called orgies, at the Games, and formally in the Senate. As the Repbulic aged, and the govermental corruption, as in decay, became more manifest, the Senate became increasingly less important, until it became little more than an eating club for relatives.
The Roman senate did not make the laws; it was the Roman people who voted and passed the laws. All the senate could do, legally, was to pass resolutions and to propose laws which were then given to the voting assemblies. At any rate, the senate met in various places over its history. Ideally, it met in the curia or senate house, but the darn thing seemed to be always burning down and the senate had to meet in a temple that was large enough to accommodate them. Pompey solved the problem by giving the senate a built in meeting place in his theater although at the time the senate had a meeting place. However during the riot at Caesar's funeral it burnt down---again. In the Early Republic laws were proposed by the consuls who put most of them to the vote of the assembly of the tribes (comitia tributa) and some of them to the vote of the assembly of the soldiers (comitia centuriata). These laws were called Leges comitalis because the name for an assembly was comitia. By the Mid Republic the main proposers of laws were the plebeian tribunes who put them to the vote of the plebeian council. These were called plebiscites, the name of the resolutions of the plebeian council.
Senators could be expelled from the senate by the censors. The duties of these executive officers of state included keeping the roll of the senators, enrolling new senators and overseeing and preserving public morals (regimen morum) and the traditional Roman character, ethics, and behaviour. The punishment for crimes of morality was issued though a nota inurebant (burned in mark, branding, black mark) or animadversio censoria (censorial reproach) which stigmatised the person. This led to ignominia (disgrace) a punishment of civil degradation. Ignominia varied according to the social rank of the offender. For senators it was ejectio e senatu, ejection from the Senate. Ignominia was a temporary punishment.
I guess that you mean senators. A senate is not a person and therefore does not live. The senators lived at their own homes. They met for the sessions of the senate at the curia, the senate house.
People met there to shop,chat, and gossip!
The Romans had two types of forum: the forum civilium and the forum venalium. The former was the civic forum and the latter was the commercial forum, or market. The forum civilium was the civic centre and the heart of a city. It had a comitia, a place where the popular assemblies met to vote, public speeches were made and public debates occurred. It had a senate house. Roman cities had their own local senate, modelled on the senate of the city of Rome. It had the courts were trials were conducted and administrative offices. It had public buildings (basilicas), shops, entertainments and important temples. At the Forum Magnum (the Romans called it Forum or Forum Magnum, Roman Forum is a modern term) in the city of Rome there was also the aerarium (the treasury) the tabularium (the state archives) and the regia (the residence of the pontifex maximus, the head of the Roman state religion) the rostra, a platfrom for speeches made with the bows (rostra) of ships captured in a naval battle, triumphal arches which commemorated victories in battle, and statues of important people. Rome had several fora venalia: the Forum Boarium (cattle market) the Forum Suarium (meat market) the Forum Piscarium (fish market) the Forum Holitorium (vegetable market) the Forum Vinarium (wine market) the Forum Pistorium (bakers' market) and the Forum Cuppedinis (delicatessen market).
There are no similarities. The Roman forum was a civic centre, not a theatre. It has the senate house, the comitia (the place wherew the popular assemblies met to vote and where public speeches were held), the courts, the state archives, the treasury, the basilicas (public buildings) and various temples. The theatres in Rome were in the area of the Campus Martius (Field of Mars).
The Romans had two types of forum: the forum civilium and the forum venalium. The former was the civic forum and the latter was the commercial forum, or market. The forum civilium was the civic centre and the heart of a city. It had a comitia, a place where the popular assemblies met to vote, public speeches were made and public debates occurred. It had a senate house. Roman cities had their own local senate, modelled on the senate of the city of Rome. It had the courts were trials were conducted and administrative offices. It had public buildings (basilicas), shops, entertainments and important temples. At the Forum Magnum (the Romans called it Forum or Forum Magnum, Roman Forum is a modern term) in the city of Rome there was also the aerarium (the treasury) the tabularium (the state archives) and the regia (the residence of the pontifex maximus, the head of the Roman state religion) the rostra, a platfrom for speeches made with the bows (rostra) of ships captured in a naval battle, triumphal arches which commemorated victories in battle, and statues of important people. Rome had several fora venalia: the Forum Boarium (cattle market) the Forum Suarium (meat market) the Forum Piscarium (fish market) the Forum Holitorium (vegetable market) the Forum Vinarium (wine market) the Forum Pistorium (bakers' market) and the Forum Cuppedinis (delicatessen market).
If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.If you mean a Roman senator, any freeborn male who met the personal and financial requirements. To apply for entry into the senate a man had to be of good character and to have the minimum of one million sesterces in assets. (Some sources say that this was later increased to two million) It also helped to have influential friends to help with the confirmation to the senate. Another way to become a senator was to be elected to an office that had automatic entry into the senate. A man could also be appointed to the senate by an emperor.
Senators. Okay, I had my yuck. The Roman senate consisted of anywhere from 600 to 900 men who met certain criteria. The candidates for the senate had to have at least on million sesterces and had to be of good moral character. In order to get into the senate, a man had to apply and have friends recommend him, or he had to be elected to certain offices or he could be appointed by an emperor or dictator. The number of senators hovered around 600 at most times, the 900 number was due to the many appointments of Julius Caesar.