Warehouses, Bakeries, Thermopolia

Question 1

What was the most famous Granary in the Ostia?

Answer 1

Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana

Question 2

What was the purpose of the granaries?

Answer 2

To house the daily imports that arrived at the port of Ostia

Question 3

Who owned the Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana?

Answer 3

Epagathus and Epaphroditus

Question 4

When was the Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana built?

Answer 4

c.145 AD

Question 5

Why were bakeries so common in Ancient Rome?

Answer 5

Most people did not have access to kitchens and people required staples like bread to be made daily in large quantities

Question 6

Why were bakeries so easy to identify?

Answer 6

Large bread ovens with flues to vent off the smoke

Had their own mills

Question 7

What were bakery mills equipped with?

Answer 7

As many as four millstones made of basalt lava driven by donkeys to grind the grain

Question 8

How many bakeries were found in Pompeii?

Answer 8

35

Question 9

What is a Thermopolia?

Answer 9

Place where hot things are sold

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Thermopolia/

Answer 10

Where most Romans got their food, due to the lack of cooking areas in their homes

Question 11

Why was a Thermopolia so easy to identify?

Answer 11

Distinctive masonry counter with deep, circular recesses for dolia (storing food and wine)

Question 12

When was Pompeii’s large theatre built?

Answer 12

2nd Century BC by the Greeks

Question 13

How many spectators could the Large theatre initally, and eventually hold?

Answer 13

3300 spectators and then 5000 spectators

Question 14

When did the Romans extend the Large theatre?

Answer 14

C1st.BC

Question 15

What were the three tiers of seating in the Large theatre and who were they for?

Answer 15

Ima cavea: for the public offcials

Media cavea: well off people

Summa cavea: for the poor

Question 16

Why did the steps of the Large Theatre go up like graduation?

Answer 16

To allow an uninterrupted view of the stage

Question 17

Describe the seating of the Large Theatr

Answer 17

Internal stairways between sections of seating allowed spectators to reach their seats after entering via the orchestra or vaulted corridor

Question 18

What was behind the stage of the Large Theatre?

Answer 18

A quadriporticus (composed of 74 Doric columns)

Question 19

What was the purpose of the quadriporticus?

Answer 19

The audience could walk and converse during the intervals between performances

Question 20

What was the quadriporticus converted to after the earthquake in 62AD?

Answer 20

Gladiator Barracks

Question 21

When was the Odeon (small theatre) built?

Answer 21

80BC

Question 22

Who built the Odeon?

Answer 22

Two local magistrates

Question 23

Desribe the decoration of the Odeon.

Answer 23

Many multi coloured marble slidings

Had a functional roof to help with aucoustics

Question 24

What was the capacity of the Odeon?

Answer 24

1000-1500 spectators

Question 25

What was the capacity of the Amphitheatre in Pompeii?

Answer 25

20,000 spectators

Question 26

Where was the Amphitheatre built?

Answer 26

The easternmost part of the city against the city walls

Question 27

When was the Amphitheatre built?

Answer 27

80BC

Question 28

Why was the Amphitheatre built?

Answer 28

As part of a building project to assert Roman authority in Pompeii and gain support of the citizens

Question 29

Who funded the Amphitheatre?

Answer 29

Quinctius Valgus and Marcius Porcious

Question 30

Describe the construction of the Amphitheatre

Answer 30

Sunk below ground level

Built onto the city walland a secondary ellipitical wall with buttresses and blind arches supporting the structure

Arena was elliptical and surrounded by a parapet originally painted with scenes of the hunt and contests

Question 31

How was the Amphitheatre’s lower seating accessed?

Answer 31

Two narrow barrel vaulted corridors whilst four narrow external, but still inadequate, steps to the upper tiers were narrow and likely congested

Question 32

Describe the outerwall of the Amphitheatre?

Answer 32

Held poles for awnings which offered shade to the spectators

Question 33

When was construction for the Colosseum started?

Answer 33

70AD

Question 34

Who started construction for the Colosseum?

Answer 34

Empero Vespasian