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Pompeii&Herculaneum
Ancient History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |