Republic being established in the year 509 b.c. . The Roman Forum was the center of commercial and civil life during the centuries of the Roman Republic people would gather here to buy and sell to hold elections to listen to speeches and to watch the triumphal procession it s a great Congress of the hundreds of years. It was here that you could hear Roman luminaries such as Cicero one of Romney s greatest orator is the statesman Cato the Elder even Julius Caesar not far from here in the Senate House Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and his coconspirators and it was here in 27 b.c. On this very spot where Caesar s nephew Octavian took the name of all Gustus and was a claimed by the Senate and people of Rome as the state s 1st emperor. From here you could see the great temple of Jupiter who was the supreme god of the Roman people crowning the Summit of the Capitol Hill. It was here in $390.00 b.c. That the city of Rome was secretly infiltrated by a group of Gallic soldiers who s