Culture - Sources

Question 1

Dinner Parties
PSB: Petronius, Satyricon

Answer 1

calf brought on 200 pound plate
Acrobats from a movable roof/ceiling

Question 2

Dinner Parties
Letter to Speticius Clarus

Answer 2

Clarus doesn’t turn up to the dinner party, and host demands for him to pay

Question 3

Dinner Parties
Letter to Avitus

Answer 3

Persona complains to Avitus that she should not drink different, expensive wine to his guests but instead should drink the same wine as them

Question 4

Dinner Parties
Triclinium in Villa Poppea, in Oplontis

Answer 4

colourful decorative paintings on walls -> grand

Question 5

Dinner Parties
Vitruvius, on Architecture

Answer 5

explains which direction the summer and winter dining room should face depending on sunlight

Question 6

Dinner Parties
Ovid Fasti - the feast of Anna Perenna

Answer 6

eventful, people would get drunk and do ridiculous things

Question 7

Roman Baths
Elderly woman Aventina

Answer 7

Tombstone says she was age 58, from Gaul. Possibly came to Aquae Sulis to be healed

Question 8

Roman Baths
PSB: Solinus the wonders of the world

Answer 8

‘patron goddess’ ‘sumptous splundour’ = positive > popular

Question 9

Roman Baths
PSB: Picture of Great Bath

Answer 9

stumps of original columns = roman architecture is advanced
large - popular

Question 10

Roman Baths
Seneca the Younger letters

Answer 10

gross noises from baths

Question 11

Roman Villas
Horace Satires - Town and country

Answer 11

Grand villas have both pros + cons - not fro evryone.
‘dyed with bright scarlet’
‘lots of yesterdays dishes’

Question 12

Roman Villas
Columella, The Villa

Answer 12

How a villa should be - structured, purposeful

Question 13

Roman Villas
Park Street Villa, Verulaneum

Answer 13

Diagram shows it was large = luxurious

Question 14

Roman Villas
PSB: Lockley’s Villa 1st building

Answer 14

simple
no individual access to rooms

Question 15

Roman Villas
PSB: Lockley’s Villa 2nd building

Answer 15

corridor

Question 16

Roman Villas
PSB: Winged corridor villa

Answer 16

Winged - more privacy

Question 17

Roman Villas
PSB: Northleigh Courtyard villa

Answer 17

large
corridor all round

Question 18

Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Carving

Answer 18

shows structure - decorative
many competitors - competitive atmosphere
tiered seating

Question 19

Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Painting of Charioteer, Ostia

Answer 19

charioteer holding victous palm and wearing crown - competitive
small chariot - importance on charioteer

Question 20

Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
PSB: Ovid, Amores

Answer 20

People came to watch charioteer racing for other purposes - to sexualise women
chariot racing was intense

Question 21

Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
Pliny the Younger

Answer 21

The races are on, a spectacle which has not the slightest attraction to me

Question 22

Roman Roads
PSB: Map of Roman Britain

Answer 22

Britain was better linked in the North than the south
Good road network

Question 23

Circus Maximus and Chariot Racing
Letter to Calvisius

Answer 23

Talks about the different colours each charioteer would wear and how spectators would support one over the other

The performers at these games were divided into teams, distinguished by the particular colour of their clothes; the principal of which were the white, the red, the blue, and the green. Accordingly the spectators favoured one or the other colour

Question 24

Juvenal Satires

Answer 24

The roars assail my eardrums

Question 25

Roman Army PSB: Vegetius, extract from Epitoma

Answer 25

Training was intense e.g. practising with a should twice the weight of a real one

Question 26

Roman Army PSB: Inscription in Chester

Answer 26

Training was dangerous People died not just in war, but also when travelling between places (e.g. shipwreck)

Question 27

Roman Army PSB: Diagram of Fort

Answer 27

Self - sufficient Skilled

Question 28

Roman Army PSB: Barrack Block in Northumberland

Answer 28

Orderly Well-built

Question 29

Roman Army Vegetius

Answer 29

Roman soldiers should: have a broad chest and powerful shoulders be outstanding not only in body but also mind should not have feminine jobs were taught not to cut but to thrust with the sword

Question 30

Roman Britain PSB: Tacitus, Agricola

Answer 30

Britain is miserable and has bad weather The British listen to the Romans as long as they don't take it too far British feel like they were being treated like slaves British were seduced by things the Romans gave them

Question 31

The Theatre at Pompeii Graffitied bronze stature of Sorex in Pompeii

Answer 31

Actius, our favorite, come back quickly = popular

Question 32

The Theatre at Pompeii CLC

Answer 32

model of clay mask

Question 33

The Theatre at Pompeii Juvenal

Answer 33

Describes atmosphere - children horrified of masks and sit on laps of laps of their mothers, screaming

Question 34

The Theatre at Pompeii CLC mosaics

Answer 34

Tell storyline of Plautus

Question 35

The Theatre at Pompeii PSB: Amphitheatre in Pompeii

Answer 35

Isles to project sound Smooth walls to protect audience Circular - all rounded view

Question 36

The Theatre at Pompeii PSB: Photo of Colloseum

Answer 36

Huge = popular Only partially standing

Question 37

The Theatre at Pompeii Juvenal Satires

Answer 37

Eppia, the wife of a senator, elopes with a gladiator (disgusting imagery) and ditches her pietas (duty to children, family, gods) - people would fall in love with the armour and bravery, but no their looks

Question 38

The Theatre at Pompeii PSB: Large theatre at Pompeii

Answer 38

Made of brick and stone Tiers of seats = popular

Question 39

Roman Roads Remains of a Roman road at Blackstone Edge, Manchester

Answer 39

Embedded with flat stones Straight

Question 40

What is Satire?

Answer 40

Comedy which is partly true