Stage 4 Culture: The Forum

What were the major purposes of the forum in Pompeii? Check all that apply.

• Commercial business

• Administrative business

• Religion

• Gardening

What surrounded the forum on three sides?

• Temples

• The River Tiber

• A colonnade

• A wall

What did the colonnade provide people?

• A corridor for more traders to do business.

• Private Rooms

• A corridor for people to walk and do business out of the heat of the sun or rain.

• A viewing gallery for all the statues.

Who was Eumachia?

• A goddess of Pompeii

• A wealthy patroness of the clothworkers & priestess

• The wife of Caecilius

• The empress

How did people enter the forum? (Check TWO correct answers.)

• On horseback

• On foot

• With wagons

• through the Bronze gates

What was the purpose of the large stone blocks at the entrance ways?

• To take tickets for entry to the forum

• To allow wagons into the forum

• A nice surface for graffitti

• To block wheeled traffic

What were the lārēs?

• a type of dessert

• guardian spirits of Pompeii

• another name for the emperors

• guardian spirits of Apollo

The Pompeiians believed that the goddess (a)   took a special interest in their town.

• Isis
• Minerva
• Juno
• Venus

Apollo was the god of (a)  

• Love and beauty
• messengers and thieves
• Wisdom and warcraft
• law, medicine and music

The basilica was (a)  

• The law court
• The election offices
• the speaking platform
• a temple dedicated to Basilicus