Week 9 Pompeii

Question 1

Pompeii

Answer 1

held moisture very well and the situation is very beautiful, it was an optimal settlement, had most of the amenities of a roman city, was more of a resort area for wealthy romans.

Question 2

Vesuvius

Answer 2

The volcano by Pompeii had three eruptions, last eruption happened in 1944, and 79 CE in Pompeii

Question 3

The social war 91-89 BCE

Answer 3

Sulla turned Pompeii in to a roman city

Question 4

The earthquake of 62 CE

Answer 4

There is a picture depicting an earthquake in Pompeii

Question 5

Casting bodies

Answer 5

Giuseppe Fiorelli recognized skeletons under the ash, he poured in plaster to make the gas from the bodies escape. this made a hard shell in the ash humanizing the victims.

Question 6

Fiorelli museum

Answer 6

He places a lot of casts in the museum but a lot of them were destroyed during ww2

Question 7

Scanning

Answer 7

Through scanning scientists are able to find a lot of information about the bodies

Question 8

The Forum

Answer 8

Was close to the entrance of the city, it was originally thought to be a Greek township, but recent discoveries have found the city to be much older.
in the Forum the was a temple to jupiter, a basillica, a comitium etc

Question 9

The Eumachia Building

Answer 9

was owned by a women named Eumachia, was a patron of the fullers, a cloth market,

Question 10

Theaters

Answer 10

Pompeii had two theaters, the larger one is a older one, it is built in the Greek style, the one next to it was smaller and it was built in the roman style.

Question 11

The large theater

Answer 11

could seat 4000 people, had a backdrop where actors changed, it had a Portico behind it

Question 12

Portico

Answer 12

A place for theatre patrons

to stroll between performances

Question 13

Smaller theatre

Answer 13

built in roman style and had a roof.

Question 14

The Amphitheatre

Answer 14

the oldest one nine 70 BCE, the colosseum in Rome was modeled after it , could seat 15-20000 spectators , could hold the whole population of Pompeii, there is only one way to get in through stairs on the outside.

Question 15

Public Baths

Answer 15

Pompeii had many, the larges bath house being that in the Forum,

Question 16

Mens Apodyterium

Answer 16

Where you took your clothes off

Question 17

Tepidarium

Answer 17

Was the room where you got messaged with oild and other perfumes

Question 18

Caldarium

Answer 18

This place was the Sauna like other rooms it was highly decorated.

Question 19

Hot tub in the mens caldarium

Answer 19

There was a tub at the end of the room which was heated right under.

Question 20

Frigidarium

Answer 20

Was the last room you would enter, had a colder bath to cool off.

Question 21

Roads

Answer 21

The roads where surrounded by buildings, further more the roads where in bedded to let water through.

Question 22

Pistrina (bakeries)

Answer 22

There were about 7 bakeries in Pompeii, these bakeries had bread preserved.

Question 23

Fullonica (Fulleries)

Answer 23

Where the people washed there clothes

Question 24

Vats for urine and water

Answer 24

Where romans washed there clothes, with water and urine

Question 25

Thermopolia

Answer 25

Places where you could grab a hot meal in Pompeii, was very popular because people needed to eat.

Question 26

Lupinari (brothels)

Answer 26

Pompeii had 5 and rooms with stone bed and had various suggestive images.

Question 27

Torn from the walls

Answer 27

When the paintings were discovered they were taken.

Question 28

August mau

Answer 28

was a German scholar who wanted to categorize paintings, earlier styles where more Greek later ones where more roman style.

Question 29

First Pompeian style

Answer 29

the style consisted of large blocks of color to look like bricks, the colors were bright, often different sizes, the artist was trying to achieve the look of the house of Cupid and psyche, was made to look like you you were wealthy.

Question 30

The second style

Answer 30

has the inclusion of artificial architecture, showing an illusion of a portico, separating them with pillars. walls were aslo shown to display windows and larger buildings to maintain the illusion of grandeur.

Question 31

Bedrooms

Answer 31

had the same mosaics

Question 32

The third style

Answer 32

Begins in the Augustan age, the wall is a solid structure, it had columns which displayed metal beams, can contained Vignettes in the middle which were often stoles upon discovery, the detail in the columns was very detailed

Question 33

The fourth style

Answer 33

was designed in the time of Nero, mostly a combination of the second and third style, with some elements of the first. Mostly displayed windows and paintings. The images show gods an mythology,

Question 34

The house of the Vetii

Answer 34

has some of the best preserved wall paintings, located in the wealthy area of Pompeii, the house was owned by two brothers Aulus Vettius Conviva and Aulus Vettius Restitutis, they had it remodeled, there was quite a bit of natural light in the villa. Most of the images on the wall was form mythology, mostly about Hercules.

Question 35

The house of the Faun

Answer 35

Stayed in the hands of Greeks, was about 3000 square foot, had a faun because of the connection to Dionysus (Greek mythology), Had very detailed mosaics which were very greek, most paintings had some sort of connection to Dionysus. Their other atrium had a more tetrastyle. They had a Mosaic of Alexander the great, other mosaics show domestic animals.

Question 36

Villa of the Mysteries

Answer 36

Most of the richest wanted their villa outside the city, suburban villa had a different construction when compared to urban villas, it had more of a second style, depicting larger people on the wall