Deck 3: Republican Town Planning and Pompeii

Question 1

The sacred boundary of a Roman city is called the

A) pomerium.
B) forum.
C) odeum.
D) orthogonal.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Ostia, the first Roman colony, was founded between ____________ BCE.

A) 400-375
B) 340-300
C) 275-250
D) 250-200

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The typical city plan for Roman colonies was a ____________ plan.

A) cardo-type
B) pomerium-type
C) castrum-type
D) forum-type

Answer 3

C

Question 4

The two Italic tribes that settled at Pompeii before the Romans were the

A) Oscans and Villanovans.
B) Villanovans and Etruscans.
C) Etruscans and Samnites.
D) Oscans and Samnites.

Question 5

In cities such as Pompeii, the ____________ was located at the point where the cardo and decumanus intersected.

A) forum
B) pomerium
C) lares
D) amphitheater

Question 6

The area within the porticos of Pompeii's forum was empty except for

A) triumphal reliefs documenting the conquest of Pompeii.
B) statues of local dignitaries and Roman emperors.
C) memorials to those who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
D) military shields honoring the veterans of Pompeii.

Question 7

When Pompeii became a Roman town, the Romans converted the Samnite Jupiter temple into a Capitolium honoring

A) Minerva, Apollo, and Mars.
B) Juno, Mars, and Jupiter.
C) Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
D) Jupiter, Apollo, and Diana.

Question 8

Pompeii's Capitolium shows influence from the Etruscan temple tradition because

A) it utilized a circular rather than a rectangular plan.
B) it was constructed entirely of marble.
C) it used exclusively Tuscan columns.
D) it was designed to be seen from the front rather than from all sides.

Question 9

At the southwest corner of Pompeii's forum was the ____________, which functioned as a place for shelter as well as for conducting business.

A) basilica
B) Capitolium
C) Temple of Apollo
D) theater

Question 10

Roman baths often contained palaestra, or

A) law courts.
B) exercise courts.
C) changing rooms.
D) religious shrines.

Question 11

Roman bath buildings were heated by ____________ systems, in which the floor was raised on brick stilts to permit the flow of hot air.

A) balnea
B) insula
C) hypocaust
D) apodyterium

Question 12

The shape of the cavea in the theater at Pompeii is slightly more than a semicircle, showing influence from what earlier type of theater?

A) Oscan
B) Samnite
C) Etruscan
D) Greek

Question 13

The odeum at Pompeii had all of the following characteristics EXCEPT

A) its cavea was in the shape of an ellipse.
B) it was roofed.
C) it was smaller than the Greek theater.
D) it was also called the theatrum tectum.

Question 14

Constructing the artificial support for the cavea of Pompeii's amphitheater required the use of

A) timber.
B) concrete.
C) tufa.
D) ashlar masonry.

Question 15

____________ were the most personalized and diverse of all Roman building types.

A) Balnea
B) Odea
C) Tombs
D) Theaters

Question 16

Explain how did the city plan of Ostia differed from that of Rome, and give reasons for these differences.

Question 17

Describe a typical castrum-type city plan and explain where these plans were used.

Question 18

Describe the monuments in Pompeii that are still visible today.

Question 19

Discuss the development of the forum in Pompeii.

Question 20

What form did the Capitolium in Pompeii take and how was it meant to be seen?

Question 21

Discuss the form and functions of a typical Roman bath complex.

Question 22

Explain how the traditional rules of Classical Greek architecture were broken in the buildings at Pompeii.

Question 23

Compare and contrast the forms and functions of the theater and the odeum at Pompeii.

Question 24

Discuss the use of concrete in the amphitheater at Pompeii.

Question 25

Discuss what evidence for the Pompeiian amphitheater may be seen in the painting of the brawl from House I, 3, 23.

Question 26

Describe the two natural disasters that afflicted Pompeii in the first century CE and the effect each had on the city.

Question 27

Where were Pompeiian cemeteries located, and why were they located there?

Question 28

From its foundation, Rome was laid out on a systematic, orthogonal street plan.

Question 29

The Oscans were the first people to settle at Pompeii.

Question 30

The word amphitheater means "double theater."