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| Poetic Justice |
 Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:51 am |
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This is the Rostra that was built on the eastern end of the Forum in
front of the 'Temple of Divus Julius' and at the opposite Forum end from
the original Rostra.
I'm interested in who built it, when and why also what it was called.
I'm getting so much conflicting info on this site. Also I've noticed it
is never added in Roman Forum reconstructions (models,
pictures/diagrams) but it is usually on Forum maps.
It was mostly destroyed in the 19th-C Forum excavations by mistake
thinking it was a much later structure.
The 'Temple of Divus Julius' had a Rostra as part of it's structure
www.vroma.org:7878/3032 and this was called the 'Rostra Aedis Divi
Juli'.
But this 2nd Rostra is also called the 'Rostra Aedis Divi Juli' by some
guides and websites (most notably by the official Forum guide by the
'Soprintendenza Arch. di Roma').
Augustus built the Temple's Rostra but did he also build this one as I
have read? Or are they confusing the two and this was built later?
It has also been called the 'Late (Imperial) Rostra' (4th-C) but that
might have just been a rebuilding of an earlier Rostra as I have also
read?
And why two opposing Rostra? You already have *The* Rostra built by
Caesar and extended by Augustus plus the Rostra at the Temple of Caesar
and the Temple of Castor is also used as a rostra-like speaking
platform.
Did these two Rostra have seperate functions like one for
political/gov't speeches and the other for funerals?
Thanks...Regards, Walter |
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