Overview
Rome is the city in which Livarva’s central drama begins and returns. From huts on hills and marshland in the future Forum, it became the centre of a Mediterranean empire. Its streets, temples, assemblies, and sacred boundaries formed the physical theatre of republican life.
Importance
Rome matters because its spaces carried political memory. The Forum, rostra, Senate houses, temples, and pomerium were not neutral places: they embodied the Republic’s claim to law, ritual, and legitimacy.
This first atlas entry is drafted from the Livarva manuscripts and will be expanded with exact chapter and source references in a later version.