Archeology and Sources
The first major archaeologist to conduct systematic excavations at Pompeii in the 18th century.
Who is Giuseppe Fiorelli?
Pompeii's main saucy export.
What is garum?
The main public building that cities were created around.
The name of the household shrine.
What is the lararium?
The year Mount Vesuvius erupted.
What year is 79AD / 79CE?
An innovation introduced by Fiorelli to preserve the shapes of victims.
What are Plaster casts?
A place to get ready-to-eat food in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is the thermopolia?
The building in Pompeii used for entertainment with gladiatorial games.
What is the ampitheatre?
The patron deities of Pompeii and Herculanuem.
Who are Venus Pompeiana and Hercules?
The Roman author who witnessed and described the eruption.
Who is Pliny the Younger?
Fiorelli divided Pompeii into these nine regions.
What is an insulae?
The social role of the paterfamilias.
Who is the head of the household?
The building at Herculaneum used for social bathing.
The 3 household gods.
What is the lares, genius and penates?
The city buried by mud, pyroclastic material and ash.
What is Herculaneum?
The historian investigating the health of residents in Pompeii.
Who is Estelle Lazer?
The housing style of the House of Menander.
What is a domus / artrium house?
The Marcellum provided evidence of this in Pompeii's economy.
What is trading of fish and meat.
The Temple of Vespasian inndicated worship of this.
What is the emporer as divine?
The famous artist depicting a modern representation of the eruption, "The Last Day of Pompeii".
Who is Karl Bryullov?
The historians debating the excavation of the Villa of the Papyri.
Who are Robert Fowler and Andrew Wallace-Hadril?
The castellum functioned as a water tower for these 4 areas.
What are the nymphaea, baths, latrines and private homes?
This urban feature helped regulate traffic and sanitation in Pompeii's streets.
What are stepping stones and raised pavements?
Evidence was found of these 3 foreign cults.
What is the Cult of Isis, Cult of Sabazius and Cult of Lakshimi?
The medical name for the cause of death for people in Herculaneum.
What is thermal / fulminant shock?