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Pompeii&Herculaneum
Ancient History
Term | Definition |
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Amphitheatre | oval arena |
Atrium | open central courtyard or hall of a house |
Basilica | public building that contained the law courts and business activities |
Caldarium | hot bathroom |
Comitium | building for town meetings |
Curia Chamber | building where the council met |
Forum | main commercial area of the city |
Freedmen/women | slaves who had been given their freedom |
Frigidarium | cold bathroom |
Fulleries | shops where fabrics were washed and bleached |
Hoplomachus | heavily armoured gladiator; known as Samnite before Augustus' rule |
Hypocaust | system of flues beneath the floor that distributed heat from a furnace |
Insula/e | cheap apartment house/blocks of housing, shops, restaurants and factories |
Myrmillo | gladiator with Gallic weapons |
Palaestra | open exercise area in the public baths |
Peristyle | courtyard encircled by a line of columns |
Pyroclastic surge | surge of rock and lava caused by the explosion of a volcanic eruption |
Sacellum | chapel |
Tabularium | building where government records were stored |
Thermopolia | bar or tavern |