演讲台(Rostra)是古罗马的一个平台,长官、政治家、倡导者和其他演讲者在上面向聚集的罗马人民演说,进行刑事审判。最初的演讲台由占卜师诸圣成为一座神庙(templum),在罗马共和国时期位于古罗马广场附近的户外集会场(Comitium),早在公元前4世纪已经建成。这个演讲台历经重建、搬迁,扩大了若干倍。最后的变化发生在凯撒重新安排元老院的地位时,另外新建了一个演讲台来取代它。他的继任者奥古斯都完成了恺撒开始的,最终被称为Rostra Vetera,以区别于后来在罗马帝国时期的数次扩建。
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*[http://www.vroma.org/~forum/rostra.html Plan showing location in the Forum Romanum]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070116113911/http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/romnlife/rostra.htm Coin depicting the ships prows attached to the rostra, and photograph showing the length of the rostra]
*[http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/resources/Richardson/Rostra_Caesaris Further on the history of the rostra in the Forum Romanum]
[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/Forum_Romanum/_Texts/Huelsen/2/5.html Graphic reconstruction of the view of the rostra with the ships prows]
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