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Pompeii features

Pompeii features. By Elsa Rose. Forum. The forum was the chief business, religion, and law center of Pompeii It held announcement boards Graffiti also told news of the city Statues of important roman citizens were placed in the forum. Forum’s Buildings. F- temple of Jupiter. Baths.

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Pompeii features

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  1. Pompeii features By Elsa Rose

  2. Forum • The forum was the chief business, religion, and law center of Pompeii • It held announcement boards • Graffiti also told news of the city • Statues of important roman citizens were placed in the forum

  3. Forum’s Buildings • F- temple of Jupiter

  4. Baths • In bath complexes there were: • cold baths (the frigidarium), • a warm baths (the tepidarium) • hot baths (the caldarium). • exercise area (the palaestra), • a swimming pool • gymnasium. • Public baths were popular because it was expensive and hard to install a bath in a home

  5. Theatre • 2 theaters, odeum and regualar theater • Odeum had roof and was for an educated crowd • Regular theater had plays usually rustic • There were entrances at sides and the back for actors • No scenery used location was announced

  6. coliseum • Oldest surviving roman ampitheater • A vicious fight between the pompeiins and the Nuceria caused a ten year ban on gladiator fights and events in the ampitheater • Constructed 70 B.C. • Held gladiator fights, athletic competitions, and games

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