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rostrum

Postby William Hupy » Thu May 14, 2015 9:06 am

This is a speaker's platform and comes to us from ancient Rome, but the story behind the story is even better. Rostra were the metal prows of ships used as rams, taken by the Romans from Carthaginian ships after the First Punic War. The Romans mounted the captured rostra on the platform in the Forum to remind its citizens and celebrate their victory over their arch enemy, which was a naval power bar none in the Mediterranean. As the Romans were not a sea power this was an accomplishment they could not let pass. Soon the platform itself decorated with the rostra became known as the rostrum.
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Re: rostrum

Postby Perry Lassiter » Thu May 14, 2015 8:04 pm

My successor as pastor at one church renovated the auditorium with a "thrust pupit," a larger stage with the rostrum set at the front and close to the congregation. Had no steel prow however.
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