Curia Hostilia

The Curia Roman Hostilia was next to the comitium on the forum in the Roman Republic, a meeting place of the Roman Senate. According to legend, the Curie Hostilia was originally an Etruscan temple (ca. 771-717 BC), was used as an assembly building of counselors of the king, the senators during the reign of Romulus. When a fire destroyed the converted temple, was commissioned by Tullus Hostilius, the third king of the Romans ( 673-641 BC ), built a new building. The building consisted of a large interior space in which the Senate met, the secretarium senatus, a court room specifically for senators, as well as the chalcidicum, the portico in front of the meeting room. Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix extended the Curia in 80 BC, as the number of senators had doubled. While unrest at the funeral of Publius Clodius Pulcher politician in the year 52 BC burned the Curia Hostilia down. Faustus Cornelius Sulla, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a descendant of Felix, the Curia rebuilt it and gave it the name Curia Cornelia. As a succession to Gaius Julius Caesar was built as part of the massive reorganization of the Forum, the Curia Iulia.