Architecture Types

Question 1

Temples

Answer 1

Hellenised Italic Model
- Made up of Etruscan and Greek architecture

Etruscan
- Cella (Large interior)
- Deep Porch
- Frontal aspects
- Raised

Greek
- Use of stone
- Style of columns
- Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

Terminology
- Opisthodomos: Back of the temple
- Pseudo-peripteral: Half engaged columns
- Peripteral: Fully engaged columns
- ____style: The amount of frontal columns (E.g Hexastyle, 6 columns)

Question 2

Bathing Complex

Answer 2

Information
- Daily routine
- Baths were cheap
- Women had access at different times
- Baths were a sign of citizenship and civic pride

Parts of the Baths
- Apodyterium: Changing room
- Palaestrium: Exercise Court
- Frigidarium: room with cold pools
- Tepidarium: Warm room for heating up the body
- Caladrium: Room with hot pools
- Laconicum: Steam room for sweating
- Unctorium: Massage room
- Hypocaustum: Furnace Room

Bather Route
- Apodyterium and Palaestrium for changing and exercise
- Caladarium and Laconicum for sluices off sweat
- Tepidarium
- Frigidarium

Symmetry
- Bathing complexes are symetical along the north-south axis

Question 3

Basilicae

Answer 3

Features
- Entrance was off the forum
- Open rectangular nave
- High roofline
- Grand factor
- Supported by an internal colonade, separated into aisles
- Each end had grand statues in apses

Function
- Meeting place for businessmen, law court, dispensing imperial gifts
- Features were required to tend to the needs of the function