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Roman Houses

Roman Houses. 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.

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Roman Houses

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  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.

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

  5. Thermopolium (fast-food shop)

  6. 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

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

  8. VestibulumPrivate Entryway

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

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

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

  12. Compluvium and ImpluviumRain comes through the compluvium and is stored in the impluvium.

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

  14. Tablinum cont’d

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

  16. Triclinium:Dining room

  17. Cubiculum:small bedroom

  18. 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) • Toilet: latrina (like our word “latrine”)

  19. Domus Mea! • Draw or sketch your house and label the rooms. • By labeling a floor plan you already know, you’ll learn the Latin names for the rooms more quickly! 

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