Subjects:
|
 Acceptance Essays
Arts
Custom Papers
English
Foreign
History
Miscellaneous
Movies
Music
Novels
People
Politics
Religion
Science
Sports
Technology
Login:
|
Member Login
Join Now!
|
|
|
Pompeii and Hurculaneum housing
Housing in pompeii and hurculaneum ranged greatly in size from the small, few roomed houses of the poor to the 50 roomed mansions of the very wealthy. the poor people usually lived in small apartments or above the shops and workshops built into thee front of the wealthier houses. the wealthier houses were never set out the same nut all had many simular features.the outside walls of the houses were painted white and usually had a coloured pannel, about 2 metres high, which was normally painted red. the windows into the house were placed very high and were very narrow to provide maximum security.the door from the street leads intoa n
in some houses the toilet was situated in the kitchen, pompeiian's weren't very concerned with hygiene. towards the back of the house was the tablinum. the people would lie on these couches and lean on their left arms while eating with their right hand. these were usually small and didnt have any windows to the street outside. the kitchen didnt have a set place in a house and it was usually very small with only room for an oven and a bench. this entrance lead into the atrium, a courtyard that contained an impluvium, a large rectangular basin that collected water from the hole in the roof which was pumped to the houses water storage, and an altar to the household gods. the tablinum is thought to originally be the master bedroom but was changed before vesuvious erupted. the most popular kind of garden was the peristyle because it had colonades which one could walk under in the heat of the day. these are very different from our modern day dinning rooms because it contained three reclining couches and the table in the middle for food. arrow hallway called a fauces which is usually decorated with mosaics. there were normally one or two dinning rooms called tricliniums. a good example of the typical pompeiian and hurculaneum house would be the "house of the surgeon" because it shows the normal layout of a house in those times. in many of the houses there was also a triclinium in the garden or in a room that opens to the outside which was used in summer. this was also where the family paper work was kept.
Common topics in this essay:
,
wealthier houses,
|
|
See the rest of the paper. Join Now!
Approximate Word count = 430
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
Already a member? Click here
|
|
|
|
CREDIT CARD
|
ONLINE CHECK
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JOIN BY PHONE
|
|
|
Get immediate access to over 100,000
high quality term papers and essays!!!
Webmasters make $$$!
|
