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3.4 ROMAN LEISURE + ENTERTAINMENT Flashcards

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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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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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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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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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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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Why would emperors or politicians put on games

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Secure votes and show off wealth/power

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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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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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Why might empeorors show animals diying in colosseum

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Their might over nature, and vastness of empire

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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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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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Who became gladiators

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

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  • Heavily armoured
  • Fish shaped helmet
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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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Features of thracian

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  • Lightly armed
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Features of bestiarius
* Fight wild animals * No armour * Spear, whips, bows and lances
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Why murmillos be pitted against hoplomachus'
Re-enactment of Greek vs Roman wars
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Why were retiarius' pitted against secutors
Heavily armed vs lightly armed
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Capacity of Circus Maximus
250,000 (5x more than colosseum)
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What were the metae
3 bronze turning points at each end of the spina
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What was the spina
* Centre of course * Wood eggs towered to indicate how many laps done * Statues of neptune - god of horses
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How long was the track at Circus Maximus
600m
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Tiers of seating at Circus Maximus
* Bottom - marble, for VIP, priests, senators, equites * Middle - Stone famalies together * Top - stone, famalies together, standing room only
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How would a horse race start
Emperor / sponser drop a cloth
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Nature of the horse-racing
* 7 laps * Anti-clockwise * 24 races a day * Each lap 10-15mins
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What would a chariot racer wear
* Colour coded tunic and leather helmet * Whip * Reins around waist to steer horse * Dagger to cut themselves free if they fall off
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Teams of chariot races
Red, White, Green, Blue
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Prize for winning chariot race
Palm branch
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Where would racehorses come from
Spain and North Africa
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What was common at chariot racing
Betting of horses
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Who usually paid for theatre shows
Usually funded by state for religous festivals or politicians trying to gain popularity
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Capacity at large theatre at Pompeii
4,000
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Large theatre at Pompeii material
Marble
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How was the Large Theatre at Pompeii optimally designed
* Built into hillside * Semi-circular * Awning
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How were people seated at Large at Pompeii
By class
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What was the Scaenae Frons
* Back wall * Painted and decorative * May have had statues
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What was the orchestra at Large Theatre of Pompeii
Where VIP's sit, in front of the stage
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Roman tragedies
Little evidence of Roman tragedies
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Popular Roman comedy writers
Platus and Terence (bades off Greek Menander)
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Plots of Roman comodies
* Everyday social situations * Love affairs * Identity confusions * Conflicts between fathers and sons * Clever characters who outwit their masters
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Plots of Roman comodies
* Everyday social situations * Love affairs * Identity confusions * Conflicts between fathers and sons * Clever characters who outwit their masters
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Typical stock characters (easily recognisable)
Flatterer, lecherous old man, boastful soilder
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Features of Roman acting and design
* Music often accompany * No female actors * Costumes and props give character info * Multirole
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Purposes of acting masks
* Amplify sound * Allow multi-role * Hair colour - red = slave. dark = young, white/grey = old man
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Features of mime
* Speaking * Acrobatics, songs and dances * Plots about sex and Roman life
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Features of pantomime
* No speaking * Single actor * Ballet like * Famous - Paris
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Social status of chariot racers, gladiators and actors
Low - infamis
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Audience interaction at a theatre show
Lots of heckling
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Biggest capacity of a bath
1,600
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Who would visit baths in morning and afternoon
Women in morning, men in afternoon
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How expensive visiting bath
Very cheap
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Why would slaves accompany masters to baths
Show power and guard niches in apodyterium
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Why would the less-affluent stay at the baths
Try get an invite to dinner parties that night
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What would be sold at the shops in the baths
Drinks, nuts, bread and sausages
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What would be segregated at the baths
Men vs Women - men's more extensive
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How did you enter the baths
Many entrances from different streets
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What was the apodyterium
Changing room
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What was palestera
Exercise ground - harpastum and wrestling
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What was tepidarium
Warm room to build up a sweat
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What was caldarium
Hot room
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What was frigidarium
Cold room to close pores of skin
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How was the baths heated
Hypocaust
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What happened in caldarium
* Hot oil rubbed over body and absorbed into pores * Massage * Removed with dirt with a strigil

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