Key Terms
Means a place where something hot is sold
What is: thermopolium
Famous head on public fountain in Herculaneum
What is: Hercules
Number of main water pipes in Pompeii
What is: 3
Things you could watch at the amphitheatre
Circus games, gladiatorial games, naval battle recreations
Main natural source of water in Pompeii
What is: Sarno River
Public fountains
What is: nymphaeum (plural: nymphaea)
Names of main public baths in Pompeii
What is: Forum Baths, Stabian Baths, Central Baths, Suburban, Amphitheatre & Sarno Baths
Seating capacity of the amphitheatre in Pompeii
What is: 12,000-20,000
Things you would do at the palaestra
What is: Discuss, wrestling, javelin, socialise, build imperial values (collegia iuvenum)
Things you would do at the public baths
What is: bathe, gossip, massage, read & potentially sexual encounters
Outfit worn by married women
What is: stola (long, sleeveless tunic worn over another tunic) + palla (cloak)
Tool for scraping off sweat, dirt & oil applied before bathing
What is: a strigil
What is: 42 (Pompeii) and 3 (Herculaneum, so far)
3 games you could play in Pompeii or Herculaneum
Trigon, tabula lusoria, tali
Outline major parts of water system in Pompeii
What is: aqueducts & reservoirs, pipes, public fountains, public baths, public latrines, secondary water pipes to private houses
The main water tower in Pompeii
What is: castellum aquae
Problem with using paintings & statues as a source for clothing, e.g. statue of Marcus Nonius Balbus
What is: depict men in toga, but only worn by upper-class men on formal occasions (e.g. religious, important political events like elections). Toga heavy & restrictive
Number of public baths in Pompeii & Herculaneum, respectively
What is: 6 Pompeii (Forum Baths, Stabian Baths, Central Baths, Suburban, Amphitheatre & Sarno Baths) & 2 Herculaneum (Forum & Suburban)
Main features of a domus
What is: entrance, atrium, compluvium, impluvium, triclinium, peristyle
Define Serinum aqueduct
What is: imperial aqueduct at Misenum had a branch built to supply Pompeii, built during time of Augustus
Define a hypocaust
What is: heating system for public baths - air heated by furnaces directed into hollow spaces underneath floor. Earliest known example Stabian Baths Pompeii
Source for latrines
What is: Pompeii - public
Herculaneum: private - seat up to 6 - Long sewer pit constructed (early 1st century AD) under Cardo V near palaestra
Number of food establishments (thermopolia, cauponae & popinae) found in Pompeii
What is: 158 (used masonry counters to determine), Ellis
What is: Cavea (seating area):
Order in which you would use the public baths
What is: caldarium (hot bath), after which the skin was scraped clean with a strigil, and to the tepidarium (warm bath) for a cooler bath and, finally, to the frigidarium (cold bath) for a bracing plunge in a cold bath. Could also use natatio, an open-air bathing pool