Pompeii - full deck Flashcards
Roman time
Hora Prima - first hour after sunriseHora Duodecima - last hour before sunsetEight watches in the night - Vespera, Prima Fax, Concubia, Intempesta (midnight), Inclinato, Gallicinium, Conticinium, Diluculum
Roman days of the week
Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Sun
Quotes at the start
Tom Wolfe, Hooking UpPliny, Natural HistoryA Trevor Hodge, Roman Aqueducts & Water Supply
Book starts at
Conticinium, Mars, 22 August - 04:21
Quotes at start of Mars
Bardintzeff, McBirney - Volcanology
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
Which towns are served by the Aqua Augusta?
Pompeii (spur) - Nola - Acerrae - Atella - Neapolis - Puteoli - Cumae - Baiae - Misenum
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
Ampliatus’s household steward
Scutarius
Which fish had the slave “killed”?
Red Mullet
How much were the red mullet worth?
6,000s each
Ampliatus’s daughter
Corelia
Name of slave being fed to the eels
Hipponax
Hipponax’s mother
Atia
Terminus of the Aqua Autusta
Piscina Miribilis - Pool of Wonders
Roof of Piscina Miribilis
48 pillars, each more than 50m high
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
Osiris
Sun GodHusband to IsisSlain each evening by Set, bringer of Darkness
What does Attilius smell in the water at the Villa Hortentius
Sulphur
What does Ampliatus smell of?
Crocus oil
What game is Corax playing with Musa and Becco
Bones
Atillius’s greek slave
Polites
How long has Corax worked on the Aqua Augusta?
Twenty years
Which hill are the Claudia and Anio Novus in Rome?
Esquiline
Roman waters
Aqua Marcia - Sweetest tasting, three springs of the ArnioAqua Alsietina - foulestAqua Julia - soft and tepid
What did Atillius’s father die of?
Lead poisoning, before 50
Capacity of Piscina?
280 quinariae
One quinariae
Daily requirement of 200 people
How many in Misenum?
10000
How much water is in the Piscina?
Enough for two days
Where are the sulphur springs?
Baiae
Whose mouth does the Aqua Augusta flow from into the Piscina?
Nepture
Where does the rider come from to tell Atillius that the water has failed?
Nola
Statue in the building housing the sluicegate
Egeria - goddess of water spring, consort of Numa
Admiral
Giaus Plinius - Pliny the Elder
Pliny’s great work
Natural History
Where is there a copy of the Natural History?
Library at the Porticus of Octavia
Imperial flagship at Misenum
Victoria
Pliny’s nephew
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus - Pliny the Younger
Where does Atillius send men to shut off the Augusta?
Abellinum
Augusta diverted to …
Beneventum
Previous earthquake
Nones of February, consulship of Regulus and Verginius, Nero was in Neapolis - Seneca describes
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
Aquaduct built by Atillius’s father
Aqua Claudia
What is the Venus Throw in dice?
Four sixes
Misenum is named after …
Misenus, herald of the Trojans, slain by Triton (Virgil)
What sort of ship is the Minerva?
Liburnum
Captain of the Minerva
Torquatus
Two great warships in Misenum harbour
Concordia and Neptune
Pliny’s two greek slaves
Alcman for reading aloudAlexion for dictation
Emporer who was Pliny’s friend
Vespasian
Pliny’s water clock, specifications by …
Ctesibius of Alexandria
Ampliatus granted freedom by …
Popidius
Commissioner sent to Pompeii by Nero after earthquake
Suedius Clemens
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
Letter shown to Attilius after Sabina’s death
Servius Sulpicus to Cicero
Who does the the dice say should go and locate the fault in the aqua?
Corax and Musa
Where does water enter Pompeii?
By the Vesuvius gate (castellum aquae)
River flowing through Pompeii
Sarnus
Horse dealer in Pompeii
Baculus (Horses Swift Enough For The Gods)
Where are the sluices to the Aqua?
Abellinum (springs rise under a temple dedicated to water goddesses)
Name of aquarius in charge at Abellinum
Probus
Slave at Pompeii’s castellum aquae
Tiro (blind)
Magistrates in Pomeii
Marcus HolconiusQuintus Brittius
Aediles in Pompeii
Lucius Popidius - in charge of waterGaius Cuspius
Where did Exomnius have rooms in Pompeii?
Africanus’s place (brothel)
Scared day for the men of the aqueducts
Neptunia - 23rd July
Popidius’s doorman
Massavo
Who is Corelia due to marry?
Popidius
What is Ampliatus building in Pompeii?
Baths
Ampliatus’s foreman at the baths
Januarius
Ampliatus’s advice to Attilius
No safer investment (in Pompeii) than property
Man Ampliatus did some debt collecting for
Jucundus
Salve lucrum
Hail profit
Lucrum gaudium
Profit is joy
Ampliatus’s (dreary) wife
Celsia
Lucius Popidius’s mother
Taedia Secunda
The rule of Varro
Guests at dinner party should not be less than the Graces (three) or more than the Muses (nine)
Oysters bred in …
Brindisium, fattened in the Lucrine Lake
Seneca’s motto
Eat to vomit, vomit to eat
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
Ampliatus’s cook
Gargilius
Centre dish at Ampliatus’s feast
Eel
Capsa
Cheap beechwood document case
Corelia’s birds
Goldfinches
Surgeon to attest to Corelia’s virginity
Pumponius Magonianus
Exomnius’s prostitute “partner”
Zmyrina
Ex-gladiator on Atillius’s team
Brebix
Why don’t the men like being out near Vesuvius after dark?
The giants …
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
Pliny the Younger’s tutors
Quintilian for literatureNicetes for rhetoric
Highest aqueduct
Nemausus (Nimes) in Gaul
What sort of gladiator was Brebix
Murmillo - 30 fights
Which troop was Brebix in
Alleius Nigidius
Waves but no …
wind
Who is sent to close off the sluices at Abellinium
Corvinius and Becco
Five neighbourhoods of Pompeii
ForensesCampaniensesSaliniensesUrbananensesPagani
Ampliatus’s temple
Isis
Population of Pompeii
20000
Sybil of Pompeii
Biria Onomastia
God the sybil sacrifices snakes to
Sabazios
Goddess of the water spring
Egeria
What does Corelia bring Attilius
Accounts stolen from Ampliatus, accounts of Vesuvius
Where in Sicily was Exomnius from?
Caetana (near Etna)
What day does Vesuvius erupt?
Jupiter (August 24)
From the womb feet first like …
Agrippa
Who does Atillius send back to Pompeii with Corelia
Polites
Where did Pliny serve in the army?
Upper Germany
Who was Pliny fighting in Upper Germany
Chauci warriors
Who did Pliny serve with in Upper Germany?
Domitius Corbolo
Claudius’s wife
Lollia Paulina
Nero’s wife
Agrippina
Who murdered Aggripina in Misenum?
Ancietus
How often is the Piscina Miribalis emptied for maintenance?
Every ten years
Pliny’s water slave
Dromo
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
Quattrorviri
Board of four - Popidius, Cuspius, Brittias, Holconius
Whose name is on notices around Pompeii promising water
Popidius (by the seventh hour)
The best wine …
Caecuban
Samnite fortress
Nola
Thracian gladiator
Spartacus
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
What’s the full ruling council on Pompeii called?
The Ordo - 85 citizens
How many Hiroshimas?
100000
Escape route from Pompeii
Stabian Gate
What rains down on Pompeii first
Pumice
“People perish …
… books are immortal” - Rectina
Island rules by Aeolus, god of Wind
Strongyle
Universal fuel on various phenomena
Sulphur
Blind friend of Pliny’s who thought eruption was the work of Jupiter
Pomponianus
Observation platform on ship
Carchesium - “drinking cup”
Where does the Minerva eventually put to shore?
Stabiae
Whose villa do they spend the night after the eruption
Pomponianus - Stabiae
“most courageous man who ever lived” according to Pliny
Marcus Sergius
Wine produced for dinner in Stabiae
Falernian
Who gives Attilius his helmet when he sets off for Pompeii from Stabiae (three miles)
Torquatus
Who does a stranger ask Attilius after?
His wife, Julia Felix
Who attacks Massavo with a torch?
Corelia
Where do Attilius and Corelia survive the eruption
The aqueduct
Where does Pliny die
Stabiae
Rumoured - a baby made of
Stone
