Editing Curia (section)

====''Curia Julia''====
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[[File:Curia Iulia.JPG|thumb|The ''[[Curia Julia]]'', as restored from 1935 to 1937]]

A generation after Sulla enlarged the senate from 300 members to 600, [[Julius Caesar]] increased its membership to 900, necessitating the construction of a larger meeting house. Shortly before his death in 44 BC, Caesar began the construction of a new building, which became known as the ''[[Curia Julia]]''. This structure covered most of the ''comitium'', and abandoned the original orientation of the previous curiae, pointing slightly northwest. The building featured a large central hall with a daïs for magistrates, and marble benches on one side. There was also a record office on one side. The building was completed by Caesar's grandnephew, [[Augustus|Octavian]], the future emperor Augustus, in 29 BC, although he reduced the senate itself to its former number of 600. The ''Curia Cornelia'' was demolished, but the precise date is not known.<ref name="OCD2"/>

In AD 94, the ''Curia Julia'' was rebuilt along Caesar's original plan by the emperor [[Domitian]], who also restored the former orientation of the ''Curia Hostilia''. The building was damaged by fire during the reign of [[Carinus]] in 283, and again restored under his successor, [[Diocletian]].<ref name="OCD2"/> The Roman Senate is last mentioned in AD 600. In 630, [[Pope Honorius I]] transformed the senate house into the church of [[Sant'Adriano al Foro]], preserving the structure at its full height. In 1923, the church and an adjacent convent were bought by the Italian government. The building was further restored from 1935 to 1937, removing various medieval additions, to reveal the original Roman architecture.<ref name="OCD2"/>