Pompeii Flashcards
Book starts at
Conticinium, Mars, 22 August - 04:21
Engineer’s name
Marcus ATTILIUS Primus
Where is Attilius based
Misenum
Constellation that rises on Festival of Vinalia
Vintager
Overseer
Gavius Corax
Name of the aqueduct around the Bay of Naples
Aqua Augusta
Who had recruited Attilius’ great grandfather?
Marcus Agrippa
Which aqua did Attilius’ great grandfather build?
Aqua Julia
Which aqua did Attilius’ grandfather build?
Anio Novus
Which aqua did Attilius’ father build?
Aqua Claudia
Where does the Aqua Augusta start?
Appenninus - springs of Serinus
Architect to the Divine Augustus (chinrest)
Vitruvius
Province book takes place in
Campania
Villain of the piece
Numerus Popidius AMPLIATUS
Ampliatus’ villa on Bay of Naples
Villa Hortensia, Misenum
Augustan aristocrat who threw slaves to his eels
Vedius Pollo
Ampliatus’s eels
Moray
One of Ampliatus’s eels was a favourite of which emperor?
Nero
Ampliatus’s teenage son
Celsinus
Which fish had the slave “killed”?
Red Mullet
Ampliatus’s daughter
Corelia
Terminus of the Aqua Autusta
Piscina Miribilis - Pool of Wonders
Attilius’s predecessor
Exomnius Aelianus - sicilian, 20 years
Person administering aqueducts
Curator Aquarium - Rome
Name of Curator Aquarium
Acilius Aviola
Where was Attilius working when transferred
Anio Novus
Philosophical school Attilius subscribes to
Stoics
Attilius’s household slave
Phylo
Attilius’s late wife
Sabina
Temple build by Ampliatus in Pompeii
Cult of Isis - presented in Celsinus’s name
What does Attilius smell in the water at the Villa Hortentius
Sulphur
What game is Corax playing with Musa and Becco
Bones
Atillius’s greek slave
Polites
Which hill are the Claudia and Anio Novus in Rome?
Esquiline
One quinariae
Daily requirement of 200 people
How much water is in the Piscina?
Enough for two days
Whose mouth does the Aqua Augusta flow from into the Piscina?
Nepture
Admiral
Giaus Plinius - Pliny the Elder
Pliny’s great work
Natural History
Where does Atillius send men to shut off the Augusta?
Abellinum
Pliny’s wine
Caecuban
Sacrificed to Jupiter
White bull
Fastest ship in the fleet, lent to Atillius
Minerva
Public holiday
Vulcanalia (appropriate)
Current emperor
TITUS Caesar Vespasianus Augustus
What is the Venus Throw in dice?
Four sixes
What sort of ship is the Minerva?
Liburnum
Captain of the Minerva
Torquatus
Emporer who was Pliny’s friend
Vespasian
Pliny’s water clock, specifications by …
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ampliatus granted freedom by …
Popidius
Soil found around Puteoli that forms the basis for Roman concrete
Puteolanum
Slave who set up rebel camp on top of Vesusvius
Spartacus
Greatest villa on the bay
Villa Calpurnia
Owner of Villa Calpurnia
Pedius Cascus (former consul)
Pedius Cascus’s wife
Rectina
Pedius Cascus’s philosophers
Epicurians
Where does water enter Pompeii?
By the Vesuvius gate (castellum aquae)
River flowing through Pompeii
Sarnus
Slave at Pompeii’s castellum aquae
Tiro (blind)
Where did Exomnius have rooms in Pompeii?
Africanus’s place (brothel)
Popidius’s doorman
Massavo
Who is Corelia due to marry?
Popidius
What is Ampliatus building in Pompeii?
Baths
Salve lucrum
Hail profit
Lucrum gaudium
Profit is joy
The rule of Varro
Guests at dinner party should not be less than the Graces (three) or more than the Muses (nine)
Trimalchio
Freed slave of monstrous wealth in satire by Titus Petronius
Fate of Petronius
Ordered to suicide by Nero - broke fluorspar wine-dipper with 300,000
Centre dish at Ampliatus’s feast
Eel
Capsa
Cheap beechwood document case
Corelia’s birds
Goldfinches
Ex-gladiator on Atillius’s team
Brebix
Where is the Villa Calpurnia
Herculaneum
Pliny: In cardiac disease the only relief lies in …
wine
What has Pliny decided to call the tremors from the volcano?
Harmonic episodes
Pliny’s widowed sister
Julia
What sort of gladiator was Brebix
Murmillo - 30 fights
Population of Pompeii
20,000
Sybil of Pompeii
Biria Onomastia
God the sybil sacrifices snakes to
Sabazios
Where in Sicily was Exomnius from?
Caetana (near Etna)
What day does Vesuvius erupt?
Jupiter (August 24)
From the womb feet first like …
Agrippa
Where did Pliny serve in the army?
Upper Germany
How often is the Piscina Miribalis emptied for maintenance?
Every ten years
What does Pliny find in amphora dropped into the reservoir
Silver coins - 250k sesterces
Which emperor is pictured on the coins found in the reservoir?
Vespasian
Who’s money is found in the reservoir?
Exomnius
Samnite fortress
Nola
Breeze from the North East
Caurus
Whose body does Attilius find at the top of Vesuvius
Exomnius
Who follows Attilius up Vesuvius to kill him
Gavius Corax
Who has written the greek account of Vesuvius
Strabo
Who has written the Latin account of the Pompeii earthquake
Seneca
How many Hiroshimas?
100,000
What rains down on Pompeii first
Pumice
Observation platform on ship
Carchesium - “drinking cup”
Whose villa do they spend the night after the eruption
Pomponianus - Stabiae
Who gives Attilius his helmet when he sets off for Pompeii from Stabiae (three miles)
Torquatus
Where do Attilius and Corelia survive the eruption
The aqueduct
Where does Pliny die
Stabiae
