1. The Roman Household and House

2. The Elite Domus Typical elite houses evolved from Etruscan atrium-style houses, with the addition of Greek style peristyle (colonnaded) gardens. Usually were one floor, with a main reception room (atrium) surrounded by bedrooms (cubicula), dining room (triclinium), record room/office (tablinum).

3. Palatine Hill, 6th c. BCE House

5. Articulation of Space

8. Pompeii, House Entrance

9. Entrance, House of Menander

10. House of Menander, View from Fauces to Peristyle Garden

11. The Atrium Reception room, often with an opening in the ceiling with an impluvium below. Contained the family gods (Lares and Penates), imagines (masks of the ancestors), symbolic marriage bed. Women of the house (or their slaves) may have wool-worked there.

12. Atrium, House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii

13. Bronze Lar, found in a SW corner of an atrium, Pompeii

14. Lararium

15. Herculaneum Lararium

16. Loom Reconstruction

17. Casa del Principe di Napoli

18. Atrium, Tablinum

19. Tablinum Wall-painting, Pompeii

20. Roman Kitchen, Reconstruction

21. Atrium House Sight Lines

22. Cubicula (Bedrooms)

23. Roman Beds

24. Bed Frame

25. Pompeii, House of the Centaur, Cubiculum Reconstruction

26. Pompeii, Silver Mirror

27. Triclinium (Dining Room)

28. Pompeii, Triclinium

29. Dining Room - Summer

30. Pompeii, Candelabrum

31. Roman Seating

32. Roman Marble Table

33. Pompeii, Bronze Table

34. Pompeii, Roman Glass

35. Roman Lamps

36. Roman Couches

37. Peristyle Court

38. Shrine off Peristyle Court

39. Tintinnabulum, Pompeii

40. Villa at Boscoreale, Reconstruction

41. Cubiculum, Boscoreale

42. Boscoreale Wall-painting Scheme

43. Woman Playing Cithara

44. Wall-painting, Pompeii

45. Views of Elite Houses

46. Elite Houses, Inside and Out

47. The Gender of Space? Greek elite houses were built to hide the women of the family from contact with men outside the family. Sight lines were constructed so that no one could see the inner quarters of the house from the front door/front room.

51. Roman Service Areas

52. Roman Work Areas

53. Subtle Control of Women?

54. Domestic Sculpture in situ: Cupid and Psyche

55. Herculaneum 3 Storey House

56. Pompeii Street Plan

57. Pompeii Houses with Vesuvius View

58. Villa at Settefinestre

59. Settefinestre House Plan

60. Houses of the Poor Poorer working people lived in rooms behind or above their places of work. The elite often rented out the front rooms of their houses, on either side of the entrances, for use as shops, workrooms, or restaurants, often with living space included. The lower classes also lived in apartment buildings (insulae).

61. Insulae