Roman City Life Sources

Question 1

Plan of a typical DORMUS

Answer 1

Question 2

Describe the plan of wooden partition

Answer 2

Question 3

Describe the plan of the house of Menander

Answer 3

Question 4

What does the House of Menander Garden show

Answer 4

Question 5

What is this source

Answer 5

Household shrine at the house of Menander

Question 6

What is this source

Answer 6

Fresco of Menander at the house of Menander

Question 7

What is this source

Answer 7

The view down to the garden pergola at the House of Octavius
Quartio

Question 8

What is this source

Answer 8

The remains of an insula near the Palatine Hill in Rome

Question 9

What is this source

Answer 9

Cutaway reconstruction of the Insula of Diana at Ostia

Question 10

What is being said here: “Two of my buildings have fallen down, and the rest have large cracks. Not only the
tenants. but even the mice have moved out!”
Cicero to Atticus

Answer 10

Cicero makes a joke about his insulae - how they were unsafe and poorly built

Question 11

What does this inscription show “Thalamus, his client, elects Publius Paquius Proculus as duumvir with judicial
power”

Answer 11

An inscription of a client supporting a patron from Pompeii

Question 12

What does the graffiti on the palaestra in Pompeii say

Answer 12

‘Whoever has paid me the fee for teaching, let him have what he seeks from the
gods’

Showing that teachers were not payed well

Question 13

What is this source showing

Answer 13

A fresco showing boy being caned - highlights harsh punishments and discipline

Question 14

What is this source showing

Answer 14

a relief of a boy arriving late to school - only boys were educated and went to school

Question 15

What is this source showing

Answer 15

Roman writing implements - that they leant literature and maths

Question 16

What does this source show - ‘The student must develop his style by careful attention. Delivery of speech must be reinforced by bodily movement’

Answer 16

Cicero writing about orators (public speakers) - that public speaking was well respected and only a few were able to participate as it was expensive and very hard

Question 17

What is the seating of a dinner party like

Answer 17

triclinium seating plan

Question 18

What is this source showing

Answer 18

A fresco from Pompeii showing eggs, thrushes and jugs

Question 19

What does this source show “Let water wash your feet clean and a slave wipe them dry
Let a cloth cover the couch, take care of our linens’

Answer 19

An inscription by a dinner party host - how caring and attentive host were

Question 20

What does this source show

Answer 20

A Statue of a Roman Senator wearing a toga - all senators could wear a toga to signify their status

Question 21

What does this source show ‘I have run away. Capture me. When you have returned me to my master,
Zoninus, you will receive a reward’.

Answer 21

A slave collar inscription - how dreadful they were treated, how much they would do for their master

Question 22

What does this source show

Answer 22

Slaves carrying heaving bricks - hard labour