{"id":865,"date":"2019-11-20T15:31:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/?page_id=865"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:26:20","slug":"fora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/italy\/rome\/fora\/","title":{"rendered":"Fora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"865\" class=\"elementor elementor-865 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50v2kob elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50v2kob\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-yxlk82h\" data-id=\"yxlk82h\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cgb2wo7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cgb2wo7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Rome&#8217;s ancient fora were the political, religious, and commercial heart of the city. The Roman Forum, in the valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, was the original civic center of the Republic, home to the Senate House (Curia), law courts, temples (including those of Saturn, Vesta, and the deified Julius Caesar), and the speakers&#8217; platform (Rostra) from which orators like Cicero addressed the Roman people. As the city and its population grew, later emperors built a series of additional Imperial Fora nearby to expand the city&#8217;s civic space, including those of Julius Caesar, Augustus, and Trajan; Trajan&#8217;s Forum, the largest and last of these, included Trajan&#8217;s Column, whose spiraling relief frieze commemorates his victories in the Dacian Wars. [Editor&#8217;s note: this page did not appear on the original site at all. This paragraph was drafted as a placeholder using general reference sources and should be reviewed\/expanded by Dr. Siegel.]<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-hnedwrc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"hnedwrc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome&#8217;s ancient fora were the political, religious, and commercial heart of the city. The Roman Forum, in the valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, was the original civic center of the Republic, home to the Senate House (Curia), law courts, temples (including those of Saturn, Vesta, and the deified Julius Caesar), and the speakers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/865\/revisions\/1314"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}