STAGE 1

POMPEII

Pompeii was situated at the foot of mountain Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples, and may have had a population of about 10,000. Pompeii was located southeast of Rome.

Caecilius& his family • Lucius Caecilius Iucundus and his

family lived in Italy during the 1st century AD in Pompeii.

• He was a rich Pompeian banker & businessman.

• When archeologists excavated his house, they discovered his accounts in a strongbox; these documents tell about his business dealings.

• 153 documents in the form of tax tablets were found in his house. They included receipts, contracts and loan documents.

• He inherited some of his money, but made most of it through business activities. He dealt in slaves, cloth, timber, & property, ran a dyeing business, raised sheep & cattle, & had a contract for collecting local taxes.

Caecilius

ROMAN NAMES

• A male Roman citizen usually had 3 names.

• Praenomen-”Lucius”-personal name• Nomen-”Caecilius”-name of the “clan” or the group of

families to which he belonged• Cognomen-”Iucundus” name of his own family and

close relatives. It is often descriptive. Iucundus means pleasant.

• Slaves usually had only one name. If their owner freed them (which was common), they became freedmen, and they usually took the praenomen and nomen of their master, using their old name as their cognomen. For example, if Caecilius freed his slave Grumio, Grumio would probablly be Lucius Caecilius Grumio.

• Girls and women usually had a feminine form of their father’s Nomen. For example, all the daughters of Caecilius would have been named Caecilia. If there were more than one, they would have been Caecilia Prima, Caecilia Secunda, etc.

Metella• Roman women were not equal, could not vote and

were expected to obey their fathers and husbands • However, they had much greater personal freedom

and freedom of behavior than women in other parts of the Mediterranean world, and were held in high respect

• Ran the household, supervised children & slaves, had her husband’s confidence

• Although their lives did center on the home, they did not live in seclusion; they went out to shop, visit friends, attended public events, attended parties; dined next to their husbands at banquets

• Roman marriage was monogamous (only one wife). However divorce was allowed and not uncommon

• Upper class women were well educated and informed, and took part in social and literary conversation

• Working class women occasionally ran businesses, usually when a widow took control of their deceased husband’s affairs.

Roman houses: villa-country estate; domus-town house; insula-apartment building; casa: cottage

• Domus• Came right up to the sidewalk

with no grass in front• Outside windows were few,

small, fairly high• Some were one story, some

two stories• On either side of the front

door, many houses had shops, which were rented out by the owner of the house.

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Feature of the Atrium

• Ianua-door• Fauces: entrance hall• Atrium-main formal room; was very open with little furniture

(maybe a marble table, strongbox and couch). The floor was paved with marble slabs or mosaics & the walls were decorated with panels of brightly painted plaster.

• Compluvium: square opening in the roof of the atrium, through which came light, air, rain.

• Impluvium: marble-lined, shallow rectangular pool that collected rainwater, which was then stored in a cistern for household use.

• Lararium: small shrine in the corner near the door, at which the family gods were worshiped.

Atrium

Atrium-Water and light flowed through a hole in the ceiling called the compluvium, into a pool called the impluvium

Lararium-shrine in the atrium, where the household gods, the Lares and Penates, were worshiped.

• Around the atrium were arranged the tablinum, triclinium and cubicula

• Tablinum: study• Triclinium: dining room• Cubiculum: bedroom• Behind the tablinum were the Peristylium, hortus and

latrina• Peristylium: colonnade of pillars surrounding a hortus

(garden)• Hortus: garden, laid out with flowers, shrubs, a fishpond,

and sometimes a fountain. It served as a family room and general place to hang out.

• Latrina: toilet or bathroom• Culina: kitchen

Tablinum: usually right behind the atrium

triclinium

Cubiculum

Peristylium

culina

Cave canem

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Poor people in the city lived in apartment buildings called insulae, several stories high

Daily life-Clothing

• Romans usually got up at about dawn, which was the 1st hour of the day. They dressed:

• Women’s clothing• Tunica-shirt like garment• Stola-dress worn on top of the

tunica• Palla-piece of cloth worn like a

shawl. Roman man’s basic clothing:• Tunica• Toga-formal outer garment

Patronus-clientes

• Often in the morning, a wealthy man would be visited by his clients. Then he might go take care of business in the forum.• Patronus-a wealthier man who gave help and

protection to underlings, called clientes• Clientes (cliens-singular; clientes- plural)- “clients” a less

wealthy men who gave loyalty and support to a patron• Salutatio-event in the morning when clients came to

greet their patron. • Forum: town/city center, with public buildings.

MEALS

• Ientaculum: breakfast-simple meal, mostly bread

• Prandium: lunch, simple meal

• Cena-dinner-elaborate meal

Cena in the Triclinium• In a Roman triclinium,

there were three large couches arranged around a central table. Up to three people (total of 9) reclined on each. Both women and men ate reclining in the triclinium. Small children generally ate at a table sitting up.

• Mensa: table• Lectus: couch• Panis: bread; vinum: wine• Ab ovo usque ad mala:

from eggs to apples.