Housing
The modern-day term for an atrium.
What is a foyer?
The name of a large gymnasium area.
What is the palaestra?
The favourite flavouring produced in Pompeii.
What is garum?
The main fabric used for clothing.
What is wool?
The name of the public fountain.
What is nymphaea?
The four types of housing styles.
What is the domus (atrium), the atrium-peristlye, the insulae, and the villas?
The latin term for painted inscriptions.
What is dipinti?
This is usually located in the kitchen for convinient disposal.
What is the latrine?
Roman doctors studied the works of this Greek physician.
Who is Hippocrates?
This create oftern acted as the spout in fountains.
What is a gargoyle?
The latin term for the dining room.
What is the triclinium?
A list of three different leisure activities evident in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is going to the ampitheatre, going to the theatre playing music or watching cockfights?
Houses had space to grow this, as found by Professor Wilhelmina Jashemski.
What is viticulture or vine growing?
The two item pieces worn by women.
What is a stola and a palla?
The way waste matter was disposed in the drainage system.
What is continusously running water?
Four features of an atrium/peristyle home in latin.
What is atrium, tablinum, taberna, triclinium, culina, peristyle, hortus, cubiculum, ala or vestibulum?
The ampitheatre seperated spectators this way, with higher class and lower class peoples sitting in these areas.
What is tiered seating, with higher class people seated closer to the spectacle, and lower class sat on seats further away?
A lighter, strained version of Pompeii's famous sauce.
What is liquamen?
This was found in the House of the Surgeon in Pompeii.
What is 40 surgical instruments?
The four main baths at Pompeii.
What is the Forum Baths, the Stabian Baths, the Central Baths and the Ampitheatre Baths?
The individual who owned the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.
Who is Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, father in law to Julius Caesar?
The latin term for the game of knucklebones.
What is tali?
The name of the most prominent manufacturer of garum in Pompeii.
Who is Aulus Umbricius Scaurus?
Men and women did this to their hair.
What is men being clean shaven with simple haircuts, and women curling their hair with curling irons?
What is Triton, dolphins and serpents.