Curia Iulia
Senate house rebuilt by J. Caesar on site of earlier Curia Hostilia
Reconstructed state: Building as restored
Known historical events
| 44 BC |
Work started by Julius Caesar, but interrupted when Caesar was assassinated. Sources: Cassius Dio 44.5.2. |
| 29 BC |
Completed by Augustus, who dedicated it as a templum and who placed works of art here, including: paintings by Nicias and Philocares; and an altar and a statue of Victory (the latter taken from Tarentum). Sources: Res gestae 19.1, Cassius Dio 51.22, Varro cited in Gellius 14.7.7, Pliny, NH 35,1; Herodian 5.5.7, Cassius Dio 51.22; Suetonius, Augustus 100). |
| 81 AD to 96 AD |
A restoration in the time of Domitian is recorded. Sources: Hier. chron.a. Abr. 161.2110. |
| 283 AD |
Destroyed by fire of Carinus. Sources: Chronogr. a. 354. |
| 284 AD to 305 AD |
Rebuilt by Maximian and Diocletian. Sources: Chronogr. a. 354; Aurelius Victor, Caes. 13.5. |
| 412 AD |
The Urban Prefect Flavius Annius Eucharius Epiphanius restores the building. Sources: CIL 6.1718=ILS 5522. |
| 630 AD |
Converted to Church of S. Adriano by Pope Honorius I. Sources: Liber pontif. 72.6. |
| 1935 AD to 1938 AD |
Deconsecrated and restored to present form showing the late-antique phase. Sources: A. Bartoli, Curia Senatus (Rome 1963). |
subfeature of Forum (Romanum or Magnum)
