Roman housing

Question 1

define insula

Answer 1

Roman term for block of flats

Question 2

define domus

Answer 2

a large Roman private house in a city or town

Question 3

what are the 4 prescribed sources for the housing topic

Answer 3

.Insula of Diana
.House of Wooden Partition
.House of Menander
.House of Octavius Quarto

Question 4

where would Menander and Octavius Quarto be found

Answer 4

Pompeii

Question 5

Where is the insula of Diana located

Answer 5

Ostia

Question 6

where is the house of the wooden partition located

Answer 6

Herculaneum

Question 7

What was a Mezzanine

Answer 7

an intermediate floor of a building open to the floor below

Question 8

why could insula be dangerous

Answer 8

.poorly constructed and prone to collapse

.prone to fire

Question 9

3 rooms found in a typical domus

Answer 9

Atrium: reception hall, main room where family received guests of clients

Triclinium: the dining room

Tablinum: used as the master’s study or main bedroom

kitchen: Often cramped with a cooking hearth

Peristyle: garden

Question 10

where is the relief depicting Diana

Answer 10

the wall the the inner courtyard

Question 11

what are three aspects that would be seen at Diana

Answer 11

.a roofless courtyard

.a number of shops on the ground floor each with their own mezzanines

.shared toilet facilities on each floor and a cistern to provide water

Question 12

what might the atrium also contain

Answer 12

shines to the household gods

Question 13

what was the impluvium

Answer 13

a rectangular pool in the centre of the atrium into which rain water fell from a opening in the roof

Question 14

what was the compluvium

Answer 14

opening in the roof that allowed for water to fall though into the atriums impluvium

Question 15

how does The house of Mender have its name

Answer 15

after the portrait of Greek playwriter on one of the walls of the peristyle

Question 16

what is a peristyle

Answer 16

garden within a Roman domus

Question 17

5 aspects in the wooden partition

Answer 17

.benches around the outside of the house for clients

.small windows looking out onto the street from the upper floor

.atrium decorated decorated red, black and yellow panels.

.carbonised wooden partition separating the tablinum from the atrium.

.shops bordering the house

Question 18

what were the three frescos at Menander

Answer 18

.Menander
.one depicting theatrical masks
.portrait of Euripides

Question 19

what were the paintings in the atrium of the house of Menander

Answer 19

3 scenes of the Trojan War

Question 20

where was Octavius and why the name

Answer 20

On one of Pompeii’s main streets, named after a signet ring of Octavius Quarto found there

Question 21

what was painted on the walls of the west of the pergola at Octavius

Answer 21

two scenes from Diana and Actaeon

Question 22

questions to think about

Answer 22

the layout of each prescribed building?

explain the living conditions of poor Roman citizens?

what are the key rooms of a Domus and what are the uses?

differences between the lives of the rich and poor?

Question 23

what was on the north wall of the pergola

Answer 23

hunting scenes

Question 24

who was the fountain shrine at Octavius dedicated to

Answer 24

Diana and Actaeon