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This is what the Roman senate looked like and unlike in film and paintings, it was not semicircular. pic.twitter.com/P19uFmzTlN
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It looks like parliament in the UK, which shows how much influence Rome once had on western civilization.
I wonder if it get continuously confused with the Rostra.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Curia_Hostilia%2C_Comitium%2C_Rostra_and_Lapis_Niger_layout.jpg
They are nearby and serve similar purposes. And it was the Rostra and not the Senate hall, if my memory is correct, that the head and hands of a recently slain Cicero were displayed.
the layout of the Senate is strikingly reminiscent of the UK’s parliament – and photos of a deliberative body that met in Rome a little over sixty y/a.
Father, I just sent $ for your days in rome but was unable to send you a note via the ask Fr Z form.