BASILICA JULIA

 

 

 

The photo on the top shows how the basilica was in 170 B.C. It was large, ornate and used for meetings and other official business during the early Roman Empire. located opposite from the basilica emilia. Julias caesar was the one who started it but as always could not finished and Augustus finished it and named it after his adoptive father. Like it happend to the basilica Emilia, Basilica also burned and repared in 12 A.D. THe Basilica of julia as you can see has many similarities with basilica emilia, first it was in ancient rome, one person started and another finished it, then it was the thing that both basilicas burned, also they were both made of marble only that this one is white marble and last that they were used for meeting center and shop but mostly as a court. A peculiar thing about this basilica is that is marked with an eight by eight  square grids which my have been used to play games like chess. On the picture on the bottom you can