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3.4 ROMAN LEISURE + ENTERTAINMENT Flashcards

1
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How tall is the colosseum

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57m

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Capacity of colosseum

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50,000

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What was the vomitoria in colosseum

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Lots of stairways for people to enter/exit with water fountains in

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4
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How many entrances into colosseum

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80

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Purpose of awning at colosseum

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Cover 2/3 of audience from sun

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Who sat at what level in the colosseum

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  • Level - emperor, vestal virgins, senators
  • 1st - equites
  • 2nd - citizens
  • 3rd - women and slaves
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7
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Negative to seating at colosseum

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Famalies segregated

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Seating material at colosseum

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Marble apart from fourth tier - wooden

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9
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How was the colosseum designed so the experiance was optimal

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  • Steeply tiered seating
  • Oval
  • Arena had 4m tall walls
  • Archers to shoot any threatening animals
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10
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Purpose of trapdoors at colosseum

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Link to tunnels underneath and to outside stadium, so animals were a suprise

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Why was the floor of the colosseum sand

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Absorb the blood of the victims

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12
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Why would emperors or politicians put on games

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Secure votes and show off wealth/power

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13
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Most expensive games at Colosseum by Emperor Trojan after military victories

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  • 123 days
  • 10,000 gladiators
  • 11,000 animals
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14
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Itinerary of day at colosseum

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  • Mornining = animal
  • Midday = convict execution (vs animals, each other - serve as warning)
  • Afternoon = gladiator fights
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Romans would’ve liked seeing wild animals at the gladitorial games as they would’ve never seen them. Give examples

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Hippo, rhine, buffalo, crocodiles, giraffes

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16
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Why might empeorors show animals diying in colosseum

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Their might over nature, and vastness of empire

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17
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What would happen when a gladiator would surrender

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  • Raise a finger
  • Crowd cheer or boo
  • Emperor make descion
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18
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How would a gladiator die if defeated

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  • Accept it without resisting
  • Someone dressed as Mercury would remove them
  • Sand raked over
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19
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Who became gladiators

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  • prisoners of war
  • criminals
  • people who signed themselves into it
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20
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Features of murmillo

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  • Heavily armoured
  • Fish shaped helmet
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21
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Features of secutor

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  • Heavily armoured
  • Helmet with 2 eye-holes
  • Leigonary sheild
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Features of hoplomachus

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  • Heavily armoured
  • Large crested helmet with visor
  • Spear and round sheild
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Features of retiarius

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  • Lightly armed
  • Large net, trident
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24
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Features of thracian

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  • Lightly armed
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25
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Features of bestiarius

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  • Fight wild animals
  • No armour
  • Spear, whips, bows and lances
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26
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Why murmillos be pitted against hoplomachus’

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Re-enactment of Greek vs Roman wars

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27
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Why were retiarius’ pitted against secutors

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Heavily armed vs lightly armed

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28
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Capacity of Circus Maximus

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250,000 (5x more than colosseum)

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29
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What were the metae

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3 bronze turning points at each end of the spina

30
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What was the spina

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  • Centre of course
  • Wood eggs towered to indicate how many laps done
  • Statues of neptune - god of horses
31
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How long was the track at Circus Maximus

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600m

32
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Tiers of seating at Circus Maximus

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  • Bottom - marble, for VIP, priests, senators, equites
  • Middle - Stone famalies together
  • Top - stone, famalies together, standing room only
33
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How would a horse race start

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Emperor / sponser drop a cloth

34
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Nature of the horse-racing

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  • 7 laps
  • Anti-clockwise
  • 24 races a day
  • Each lap 10-15mins
35
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What would a chariot racer wear

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  • Colour coded tunic and leather helmet
  • Whip
  • Reins around waist to steer horse
  • Dagger to cut themselves free if they fall off
36
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Teams of chariot races

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Red, White, Green, Blue

37
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Prize for winning chariot race

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Palm branch

38
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Where would racehorses come from

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Spain and North Africa

39
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What was common at chariot racing

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Betting of horses

40
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Who usually paid for theatre shows

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Usually funded by state for religous festivals or politicians trying to gain popularity

41
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Capacity at large theatre at Pompeii

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4,000

42
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Large theatre at Pompeii material

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Marble

43
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How was the Large Theatre at Pompeii optimally designed

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  • Built into hillside
  • Semi-circular
  • Awning
44
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How were people seated at Large at Pompeii

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By class

45
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What was the Scaenae Frons

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  • Back wall
  • Painted and decorative
  • May have had statues
46
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What was the orchestra at Large Theatre of Pompeii

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Where VIP’s sit, in front of the stage

47
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Roman tragedies

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Little evidence of Roman tragedies

48
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Popular Roman comedy writers

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Platus and Terence (bades off Greek Menander)

49
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Plots of Roman comodies

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  • Everyday social situations
  • Love affairs
  • Identity confusions
  • Conflicts between fathers and sons
  • Clever characters who outwit their masters
50
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Plots of Roman comodies

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  • Everyday social situations
  • Love affairs
  • Identity confusions
  • Conflicts between fathers and sons
  • Clever characters who outwit their masters
51
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Typical stock characters (easily recognisable)

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Flatterer, lecherous old man, boastful soilder

52
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Features of Roman acting and design

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  • Music often accompany
  • No female actors
  • Costumes and props give character info
  • Multirole
53
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Purposes of acting masks

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  • Amplify sound
  • Allow multi-role
  • Hair colour - red = slave. dark = young, white/grey = old man
54
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Features of mime

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  • Speaking
  • Acrobatics, songs and dances
  • Plots about sex and Roman life
55
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Features of pantomime

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  • No speaking
  • Single actor
  • Ballet like
  • Famous - Paris
56
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Social status of chariot racers, gladiators and actors

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Low - infamis

57
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Audience interaction at a theatre show

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Lots of heckling

58
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Biggest capacity of a bath

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1,600

59
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Who would visit baths in morning and afternoon

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Women in morning, men in afternoon

60
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How expensive visiting bath

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Very cheap

61
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Why would slaves accompany masters to baths

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Show power and guard niches in apodyterium

62
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Why would the less-affluent stay at the baths

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Try get an invite to dinner parties that night

63
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What would be sold at the shops in the baths

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Drinks, nuts, bread and sausages

64
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What would be segregated at the baths

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Men vs Women - men’s more extensive

65
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How did you enter the baths

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Many entrances from different streets

66
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What was the apodyterium

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Changing room

67
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What was palestera

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Exercise ground - harpastum and wrestling

68
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What was tepidarium

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Warm room to build up a sweat

69
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What was caldarium

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Hot room

70
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What was frigidarium

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Cold room to close pores of skin

71
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How was the baths heated

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Hypocaust

72
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What happened in caldarium

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  • Hot oil rubbed over body and absorbed into pores
  • Massage
  • Removed with dirt with a strigil

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