Pompeii Terms

What did Sextus push a statue into in Chapter 3?

• Piscina
• Ignis
• Davus
• Tablinum

What were the household Gods called?  

• Patron saints of domesticity
• Penates and Larares
• Vesta is the only one
• Bobus and Jimmius

What was the room for sleeping? 

• Tablinum
• Cubiculum
• Caupona
• Alae

Did Romans have baths in their house? 

• Nope
• I dunno
• Everyone did
• Only fancy rich people

Where would the pater potestas hold meetings? 

• Atrium
• The restaurant next door
• Hortus
• Tablinum

What room was used for dinner parties?

• Cubiculum
• Triclinium
• Atrium
• Tablinum

What room has the decorative sculptures and garden? 

• Exedra
• Alae
• Peristylium
• Cubiculum

What surrounded the ancient city? 

• A wall
• A moat
• Barbed wire fence
• Guard dogs

What was not in the ruins of Pompeii

• amphitheater for gladiatorial games
• Temple to Isis
• Senate house
• Theater

What was added later by archaeologists?

• The frescos on the walls
• The grid system for naming streets
• The Temple to Apollo
• The palaestra