HSC Sources and Quotes

Question 1

House of Centenary

Answer 1

Wall painting of Mt Vesuvius with grapes and a snake.

Question 2

Pliny the Youngers letter 6:16

Answer 2

(Impact of the 79AD Earthquake): “The sea seemed to roll back upon itself”.

Question 3

Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemsk contributions

Answer 3

Discovered olive trees and grape vines, contributing to knowledge of cultivation in Pompeii.

Question 4

Giuseppe Fiorelli contributions

Answer 4

Divided Pompeii into 9 Regio’s. Founded the plaster casting preservation method.

Question 5

Temples of importance in Pompeii

Answer 5

Apollo, Isis and the Lares

Question 6

Findings in the House of Faun (Greek and Egyptian)

Answer 6

Mosaics of sea life
Mosaic of Alexander the Great
Corinthian Columns peristyle - Greek
Mosaics of Crocodiles, hippos and Ibis - Egypt.

Question 7

House of Julia Felix contribution to knowledge on Pompeii women

Answer 7

Rented out in 62AD after earthquake, inherited property made her lots of money.

Question 8

“Mens sana in corpore san”

Answer 8

“A sound mind in a sound body”

Question 9

House of the Deerin

Answer 9

Herculaneum - Frescoes of typically served food like bread, rabbit, nuts and more.

Question 10

Compluvium and the impluviums use

Answer 10

Complivium is a whole in the roof, the impluvium catches rain water to use.

Question 11

What does the Tomb of Scaurus have inscribed

Answer 11

Scenes of gladiator battles and stats on his battles.

Question 12

Findings from Estelle Lazers research on skeletons

Answer 12

Can determine their sex, age, death and diseases.

Question 13

UNESCO World Heritage Listing date

Answer 13

1997

Question 14

Great Pompeii Project 2011

Answer 14

Funded by European Regional Development and Italian government in efforts to restore Pompeii.

Question 15

Plutarch in relations to The Great Rhetra

Answer 15

“Their state was overloaded with a multitude of indigent and necessitous persons”.

Question 16

PH Kelly in relations to land distribution in Sparta

Answer 16

Sparta didn’t have equal property - backed by Aristotle, rejected by Plutarch.

Question 17

Xenophon x2 in regards to the Agoge

Answer 17

“To make the boys craftier… and cultivate their war-like instincts”
“When the froth of insolence rises to the surface;… the most violent appetites for pleasure invade the mind”.

Question 18

Thomas J Figueira in relation to coinage

Answer 18

“Coinage would have had to be well established for it to be banned in the first place”.

Question 19

Goddess and her Temple in Sparta

Answer 19

Temple of Artemis Orthia - cult for growth and fertility, used to educate, make animal sacrifices and liberate water/wine.
Holds an annual cheese stealing ritual to build endurance in youths.

Question 20

Herodotus in relation to the Death of a king in Sparta.

Answer 20

“Men and women together strike their foreheads with every sign of grief”.

Question 21

Emma Southen x3 in relation to Agrippina

Answer 21

“[everything Tacitus says] is twisted to manipulate to tell the story of Roman degredatIon”.
“Looms large as a symbol of everything wrong with the imperial system”.
“Agrippina only exists when her actions impact the lives of men”.

Question 22

Sebasteion in Aphrodisias reliefs of Agrippina

Answer 22

‘Crowning Nero’ and the other with her wearing a diadem’.

Question 23

Barrett x2 in relation to Agrippina

Answer 23

“Performed only by a notionally superior authority” - crowning Nero
“Agrippinas domineering influence over Nero… created a growing sense of resentment and alienation”.