Understanding the Roman Forum

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This video explores the tangled thousand-year history of the Roman Forum with reference to the surviving monuments.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Burial and excavation
1:22 Origins
2:12 The Regia and Temple of Vesta
3:16 The Forum Square
4:07 The Rostra
4:57 The Basilicas
5:50 TripleTen
7:15 Caesar and his temple
8:19 Augustus and his successors
9:12 The Arch of Septimius Severus
10:07 The Temple of Saturn
10:51 The Curia
11:41 Late Antiquity
12:23 The end of the Forum