The Curia was the meeting place of the Senate from the earliest days of Rome. The first Senate house, the Curia Hostilia (named after Tullus Hostilius, the king who built it) nowadays lies under the Church of S.S. Luca & Martina. In 52 BC after the murder of Clodius his supporters held an impromptu funeral in the wooden Curia Hostilia. The form of the funeral was a cremation and neither Clodius' body or the Curia Hostilia survived. The Curia Sulla, later the Temple of Felicitas, was used for a time, as was Pompey's theatre (It was at the entrance to that structure that Julius Caesar was killed in what is now the Largo Argentina.) The building of the Curia Julia was started by Caesar and finished by Augustus. The present building belongs to the restoration of Diocletian and it owes its state of preservation to the fact it was converted into the church of S. Adriano. Most of the internal pavement is original, as is the president's platform at the rear of the building and the steps for the senatorial seating area.