A Curia in early Roman times was a subdivision of the people, i. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC e. more or less a tribe, and with a metonymy it came to mean also the meeting place where the tribe discussed its affairs. In Rhetoric, metonymy (mɨˈtɒnɨmi is the use of a word for a concept or object associated with the concept/object originally denoted by the word Etymologically it is derived from the Old Latin term "co-viria," literally an "association of men. Old Latin (also called Early Latin or Archaic Latin) refers to the Latin language in the period before the age of Classical Latin; that is all " This archaic pronunciation - note that in Classical Latin "v" is always pronounced as "w" - eventually evolved into the more recognizable word. Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature.

The curia per antonomasia was the Curia Hostilia in Rome, which was the building where the Senate usually met. Curia Julia, (Latin Curia Iulia) the third named curia or senate house in Ancient Rome was built in 44 BC when Julius Caesar replaced Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Roman Senate was a political institution in Ancient Rome. The Senate, initially just a meeting of the city elders from all tribes (its name comes from "senex", which means "old man"), saw its powers grow together with the conquest that brought a town of humble origins to rule a large Republic (and then decrease steadily with the advent of the Empire). The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a Republican form of government a period which began with the overthrow of the The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial

During their expansion, the Romans exported the model to every city that gained the status of Municipium, so that it had its own Senate and its own officials charged with local administration (although they weren't usually elected but nominated by the central government; the only place where officials were actually elected by the people was Rome itself, and by Imperial times even those elections, although kept for the sake of tradition, had no more significance). A municipium (pl municipia) belonged to the second highest class of Roman cities being Senators themselves were not elected since the early Republic, having been transformed into a hereditary nobility.

By the Imperial period, a curia was any building where local government held office, i. e. judicial proceedings, government meetings, bureaucracy, etc. , and shortly afterwards the term started to refer also to the people making up the local administration (see curiales). In Ancient Rome, the curial class ( curiales from co + viria 'gathering of men' referred to the merchants businessmen and medium-sized landowners who served in their local The Curia situated in the Roman Forum functioned as a senate house for meetings and discussions over the Roman Empire to be held. This page refers to the main forum in the center of Rome See Imperial forums or Other forums in Rome (below for other forums in Rome and It was to the north of the Forum, and was particularly used to conduct the affairs of the government when under the rule of an emperor. It is one of the few buildings in the Roman Forum that is still standing and we are able to visualise what it would have been like at the time of the Romans.

During the late Roman Empire, the government assumed a dual character, secular and religious. The fall of the Western Roman Empire ended the secular curia, but not the religious one, which has continued to the present day. After the end of the Roman Empire, the term, Curia, was used to designate the administrative apparatus of the Roman Catholic Church, and more specifically, the Vatican. See the Wikipedia article, Roman Curia, for more information.

See also

• Constitution of the Roman Republic
• Roman Curia

The Constitution of the Roman Republic or Mos maiorum (Latin for "customs of the ancestors" was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles The Roman Curia is the administrative apparatus of the Holy See and the central governing body of the entire Roman Catholic Church, together with the Pope

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