Comitium

The comitium was in the Roman Republic to the late Republican period, the usual place for the legislative People's Assembly ( Comitia ). It lay on the edge of the Roman Forum, next to the Curia Hostilia or their Nachfolgebauten the Curia Cornelia and the Curia Iulia, where the Senate usually met.

The shape of the Comitium has been changed several times. Originally probably only an open space, it later received a circular shape, not unlike that of an amphitheater. At the edge of Comitium there was the speaker's platform ( Rostra ). Since not all Roman citizens found space on the comitium, saying the speakers in the late Republic of the Rostra not to comitium, but to the larger forum. Today, almost nothing can be seen from comitium after all these transformations.