1. Roman Houses

2. Affordable Housing “Insulae”: apartments that took up a city block Often 3-4 stories Bad construction could lead to collapse and fire Usually had a shared courtyard, sometimes running water The plebs (commoners) and equites (middle class) often lived in insulae

3. Insulae, continued Insulae ranged in price and apartment size Usually utilized public latrines Cooking was discouraged; most bought ready- made food from a local thermopolium.

6. Toilets!!!

7. Toilets Again! Don’t forget your sponge-on- a-stick!!!

8. Public Fountains

9. Thermopolium

12. Domus Wealthy city home: domus Wealthy country home was called a villa Small country house: casa Homes for patricians and senatorial class citizens (upper class folks) Best-preserved examples are in Pompeii and Herculaneum

15. Shops (tabernae) Shops opened to the street---paid rent to the homeowners.

16. Vestibulum Private Entryway

17. Culina: Kitchen (only in wealthy homes!)

18. Atrium: an open, central courtyard, often used as a “living room” or reception area

19. Bibliotheca Library Some homes had 2 libraries: one for Latin books and one for Greek books

20. Compluvium and Impluvium Rain comes through the compluvium and is stored in the impluvium.

21. Tablinum: the main office/study, usually behind the atrium

22. Tablinum cont’d

23. Peristylium: a garden (hortus) surrounded by a columned porch; a patio

25. Triclinium: Dining room

26. Cubiculum: small bedroom

27. Other Rooms… Some large homes had their own private bath suites, or balneum: warm bath, hot bath, cold bath (most people used the wonderful public baths, balneae or thermae) Toilet: latrina (like our word “latrine”)

28. Domus Mea! Draw or sketch your house and label the rooms. Include enough detail in the rooms (furniture, etc.) that I can tell you are using the correct Latin room name. If you’d like to draw your “dream home” instead of your real home…that’s OK, too! Rubric: (70)All rooms labeled with Latin names (10) Unlined paper (10) Outlines and labels in dark marker (10) Neat and legible