Housing

Question 1

What is the name for a house of a wealthy Roman?

Answer 1

A Domus

Question 2

What is the name for Roman flats for poorer Romans or Romans who would rent out flats?

Answer 2

Insulae

Question 3

How many domus’s where in Rome?

Answer 3

2000

Question 4

How many insulae where in Rome?

Answer 4

40,000

Question 5

How many floors would a Domus have?

Answer 5

1 - 2

Question 6

How many floors would a insulae have?

Answer 6

3-5 sometimes even 7

Question 7

What where dangers of an insulae?

Answer 7

Collapsing and setting on fire

Question 8

What where negative things about an insulae?

Answer 8

Germ ridden, disease ridden, little sunlight, communal toilets, lack of privacy and lack of facilites

Question 9

What where positive things about an insulae?

Answer 9

Central location, lots of shops, available for rich and poor and water/toilet availability

Question 10

What where features of the Insula of Ostia?

Answer 10

It had a central roofless courtyard allowing light and water access, number of shops, shared toilets, aqua storage system and internal stairs

Question 11

What was the Ianua?

Answer 11

The entrance to the house

Question 12

What was the atrium?

Answer 12

Living room

The open central court from which enclosed rooms led off

Question 13

What was the peristylium?

Answer 13

The garden

Question 14

What was the triclinium?

Answer 14

The dining room

Question 15

What was the culvina?

Answer 15

The kitchen

Question 16

What was the cubiclum?

Answer 16

The bedroom

Question 17

What was the tablium?

Answer 17

The paterfamilias’s office

Question 18

What was the laraium?

Answer 18

The prayer room/ancestor shrine

Question 19

What was the inpluvium?

Answer 19

The square basin in the centre of the atrium of an ancient Roman house, which received rainwater from an opening in the roof

Question 20

What was the conpluvium?

Answer 20

The hole in the roof which allowed water into the inpluvium

Question 21

What where features of general domus’s?

Answer 21

art, mosaic, sculptures, privacy good hygiene, shops and good facilities, spaces for business meetings.

Question 22

What where features of the House of the Wooden partition in Herculaneum?

Answer 22

Black, red and yellow atrium, benches outside

Question 23

What where features of the House of Menander?

Answer 23

Big space, baths, 2 houses put together, huge triclinium and mosaic in the atrium

Question 24

What where features of the House of Octavius Quartio?

Answer 24

Huge gardens with canals, bridges and outdoor eating/entertainment area and an outside temple/laraium