{"id":15302,"date":"2011-11-15T23:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15302"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:11:33","slug":"the-roman-forum-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15302","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Forum &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Forum was the center for public life in ancient Rome. Today, the Forum lies mostly in ruins. At the northwest corner of the forum stands the Arch of Septimius Severus dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the victories of Septimius Severus and his sons against the Parthians. Near the Arch stands the Column of Phocus dedicated in 608 AD to the Eastern Roman Emperor Phocus. The Church of Santi Luca e Martina, commissioned in 625 AD, is also nearby. Of the Temple of Saturn, the oldest temple in the Forum, only eight columns and the podium remain. Even less of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus has survived. Only three columns remain standing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Arch-of-Septimius-Severus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15303\" title=\"Arch of Septimius Severus\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Arch-of-Septimius-Severus.jpg\" alt=\"Arch of Septimius Severus\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Arch-of-Septimius-Severus.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Arch-of-Septimius-Severus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Arch-of-Septimius-Severus-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Arch of Septimius Severus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Arch of Septimius Severus (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Church-of-Santi-Luca-e-Martina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15304\" title=\"Church of Santi Luca e Martina \/ Arch of Septimius Severus\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Church-of-Santi-Luca-e-Martina.jpg\" alt=\"Church of Santi Luca e Martina \/ Arch of Septimius Severus\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Church-of-Santi-Luca-e-Martina.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Church-of-Santi-Luca-e-Martina-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Church-of-Santi-Luca-e-Martina-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Church of Santi Luca e Martina \/ Arch of Septimius Severus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Church of Santi Luca e Martina \/ Arch of Septimius Severus (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Column-of-Phocus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15305\" title=\"Column of Phocus\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Column-of-Phocus.jpg\" alt=\"Column of Phocus\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Column-of-Phocus.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Column-of-Phocus-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Column-of-Phocus-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Column of Phocus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Column of Phocus (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Saturn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15307\" title=\"Column of Phocus \/ Temple of Saturn \/ Temple of Vespasian and Titus \" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Saturn.jpg\" alt=\"Column of Phocus \/ Temple of Saturn \/ Temple of Vespasian and Titus \" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Saturn.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Saturn-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Temple-of-Saturn-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Column of Phocus \/ Temple of Saturn \/ Temple of Vespasian and Titus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Column of Phocus \/ Temple of Saturn \/ Temple of Vespasian and Titus (Rome, Lazio, Italy); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 13 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forum was the center for public life in ancient Rome. Today, the Forum lies mostly in ruins. At the northwest corner of the forum stands the Arch of Septimius Severus dedicated in 203 AD to commemorate the victories of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[325,311,331],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-italy","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-rome"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3YO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22667,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions\/22667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}