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Today: Rome
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When?
Where?
What?
Who?
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Roman Towns
Clothes and food
Roman Homes
Work in Rome
Arts and Crafts
Leisure in Rome
Rome
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Evidence
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Artifacts
Ruins
Primary Source - Tacitus
“Thus those who confessed (i.e.. to being
Christians) were being put to death they
were made objects of fun; they were
clothed in hides of beasts and torn to
death by dogs; others were crucified,
others were set on fire in Nero’s garden.
Even the most hard-hearted Romans took
pity on the Christians.”
Pompeii
Why is Pompeii so important?
250BC – 476 AD Approx
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Market
place
with
temples
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B
C
1 February 2008 AD
Today - Roman Towns
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Grid Pattern – streets at right angles
Forum – Market Square
Amphitheatre – Circular Open-Air Arena
Circus – Stadium for Chariot Racing
Public Baths – for washing and meeting people
Aquaducts – Water Supply
Sewerage System – Drains under streets
2 Main Streets NS, EW
Town Walls – For Defence
Main Gates – 4 or more
Toga – long
white sheet
Stola
And palla
Clothes
Tunic tied
at the
waste
Rich ladies wore hair extensions,
bracelets and necklaces
Who do you think cooked and
served the food?
Food
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Plebeians
Porridge
Bread
Olives
Dates
Water or wine
Cena was a
vegetable stew with
sausage
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Patricians
Cena
Feasts
Low tables
Salads, shellfish,
eggs, meats, stuffed
mice and songbirdsl
snails, fruit, nuts and
sweet cakes
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• D................. A house where a patrician and his family lives
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• A................. A courtyard at the centre of the domus where
there is a pool for catching rainwater
• I...................... The pond of rainwater in the atrium
• P........................... The walled in garden
• S....................... The Romans prayed to the Gods here,
usually in the peristylium
• C.......................... is a covered walkway around the walled
garden
• M...................... were paintings on the walls that decorated
the domus
• F.................... were paintings on the wall done on wet
plaster
• M..................... were designs or pictures made of little
pieces of glass or tile
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Up to 8 stories high
No fireplace
No cooker
Poor heating
Poor insulation
No toilets
Poorest live at the top
Poorly built
Fire