Basilica of Maxentius
The Basilica of Maxentius—Italian *Basilica di Massenzio*—is one of those Roman Forum projects you can measure in ambition: when it was built, it was the largest building in the Forum and the last Roman basilica completed in the city. Construction began on the Forum’s northern side in 308 AD under Emperor Maxentius, and it was finished in 312 by Constantine I after Maxentius’ defeat at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. This was a civic basilica, the kind Romans used for practical life—courthouse, council chamber, and meeting hall—built on a 100-by-65-metre concrete platform. The scale is striking too: its central nave was about 80 metres long, 25 metres wide, and 35 metres high. Over time, its identity shifted. …
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