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For other temples to this goddess, see article on Concordia.


The Temple of Concord in the ancient city of Rome was the city's primary temple dedicated to the goddess Concordia. It was situated at the western end of the Roman Forum
Roman Forum

The Roman Forum , sometimes known by its original Latin name, is located between the Palatine hill and the Capitoline hill of the city of Rome. It is the central area around which the Ancient Rome developed....
. It may have been founded as early as the 6th Century BC, although there is dispute over the exact timing. It was destroyed and restored multiple times in its history, and its ultimate restoration, between 7-10 AD under Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, is described in Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
's Natural History.

n literature states that it was first vowed by Marcus Furius Camillus
Marcus Furius Camillus

Marcus Furius Camillus was a Roman soldier and statesman of plebian descent. According to Livy and Plutarch, Camillus Roman Triumph four times, was five times Roman dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome....
 in 367 BC to commemorate the Leges Liciniae Sextiae of Lucius Sextius Lateranus and the resulting reconciliation between the patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
s and plebians after the Aventine Secession.






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For other temples to this goddess, see article on Concordia.


The Temple of Concord in the ancient city of Rome was the city's primary temple dedicated to the goddess Concordia. It was situated at the western end of the Roman Forum
Roman Forum

The Roman Forum , sometimes known by its original Latin name, is located between the Palatine hill and the Capitoline hill of the city of Rome. It is the central area around which the Ancient Rome developed....
. It may have been founded as early as the 6th Century BC, although there is dispute over the exact timing. It was destroyed and restored multiple times in its history, and its ultimate restoration, between 7-10 AD under Roman Emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
 Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
, is described in Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
's Natural History.

History

Roman literature states that it was first vowed by Marcus Furius Camillus
Marcus Furius Camillus

Marcus Furius Camillus was a Roman soldier and statesman of plebian descent. According to Livy and Plutarch, Camillus Roman Triumph four times, was five times Roman dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome....
 in 367 BC to commemorate the Leges Liciniae Sextiae of Lucius Sextius Lateranus and the resulting reconciliation between the patrician
Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
s and plebians after the Aventine Secession. This early foundation date is strongly disputed, however.

It was a frequent focus for fostering harmony in the Roman state, both through its first rebuilt in 121 BC (after the murder of Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
), and through its occasional use for meetings of the Senate, especially in times of civil disturbance (Cicero
Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
 delivered his fourth Catilinarian oration here).

It was again restored between 7 and 10 AD by Tiberius
Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, born Tiberius Claudius Nero , was the second Roman Emperor, from the death of Augustus in AD 14 until his own death in 37....
 as Augustus's heir, better to use the limited available area on the site. He probably rededicated it in AD 12
12

Year 12 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
. This restoration was distinguished by its opulent marble and rich architectural ornamentation, and Tiberius's housing of numerous Greek paintings, sculpture and other works of art there (listed in Pliny
Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was an ancient author, naturalist or natural philosopher and naval and military commander of some importance who wrote Natural History ....
's Natural History), making it something akin to an art museum.

Architecture

Backed up against the Tabularium
Tabularium

The Tabularium was the official records office of ancient Rome, and also housed the offices of many city officials. Situated within the Forum Romanum, it was on the front slope of the Capitoline Hill, below the Temple of Jupiter , to the southeast of the Arx and Tarpeian Rock...
 at the foot of the Capitoline Hill
Capitoline Hill

The Capitoline Hill , between the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome of Rome. By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Campidoglio in the Romanesco....
, the architecture had to accommodate the limitations of the site. The cella
Cella

A cella or naos , is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture, or a shop facing the street in domestic Roman architecture ....
 of the temple, for instance, is almost twice as wide (45m) as it is deep (24m), as is the pronaos. In the cella a row of Corinthian columns rose from a continuous plinth
Plinth

A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument or structure rests....
 projecting from the wall, which divided the cella into bays, each containing a niche. The capitals of these columns had pairs of leaping rams in place of the corner volute
Volute

A volute is a spiral scroll-like ornament that forms the basis of the Ionic order, found in the Capital of the Ionic column. It was later incorporated into Corinthian order and Composite order column capitals....
s. Only the platform now remains, partially covered by a road up to the Capitol.

Empire

The main temple in the Forum in Rome seems to have been a model for temples to the goddess elsewhere in the empire - a reproduction of this temple was found in Mérida
Mérida, Spain

M?rida is the capital of the autonomous communities in Spain of Extremadura, Spain. It has a population of 55,568 ....
 (Spain), during the excavations of the town's forum in 2002.

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