daily life - pompeii
ACTIVITY 1
Visit the PBS website and explore the Life in Roman Times section to answer the questions from the handout.
ACTIVITY 2
Read one or both of the following eye-witness accounts (1 & 2) of Pompeii's destruction and answer the following questions:
ACTIVITY 3
The Baths - a virtual tour
ACTIVITY 4 - Choose one area of Pompeii to explore and answer the questions below:
Questions:
Virtual Tour of Pompeii
Conjectural Map of Pompeii
Visit the PBS website and explore the Life in Roman Times section to answer the questions from the handout.
ACTIVITY 2
Read one or both of the following eye-witness accounts (1 & 2) of Pompeii's destruction and answer the following questions:
- Locate the places named in the letters: Misenum (my-see-num), now called Miseno, on the west shore of the Bay of Naples, across from Pompeii, and Stabiae (sta-bee-eye), now called Castellammare di Stabia, on the bay south of Pompeii on the bay.
- How does Pliny describe the eruption? How was Pompeii buried?
- What glimpses of everyday Roman life we can find in Pliny's letters?
- Compare Pliny's characterization of himself and his uncle in the face of danger with that of other townspeople.
ACTIVITY 3
The Baths - a virtual tour
ACTIVITY 4 - Choose one area of Pompeii to explore and answer the questions below:
Questions:
- Try to visualize the site as it appeared two thousand years ago. What is missing from the scene that would have been there at the time? What sorts of people do you imagine coming to the site? What do you see them doing?
- Compare the site to a similar location in a modern-day city or town. What is our equivalent to this place? How do we behave there? When and why do we go there? What similarities help us understand Pompeiian society? What differences remind us that the ancient world is remote from the world of today?
- Make a list of the most interesting features you notice on your "field trip." These can be details explained in the image captions or details that simply catch your eye.
- Make a list of questions you would like to ask an expert about Pompeii.
- Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Forum Map" and use the links to access 360-degree views of the Basilica (lower left), the Temple of Apollo (mid-left), the area between the Temple of Jupiter and the Macellum (top), and the Forum itself (center), along with other sites in this area.
- View of the Forum taken from overhead
- Temple of Apollo, another view
- The Macellum (ma-sell-um), the city's meat market
- The Macellum, wall paintings within the building
- Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, another view
- Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, views of the altar
- Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Pompeii Map" and use the links on the map to access views along the Via dell'Abbondanza.
- Thermopolium, another view
- Thermopolium, another view showing a painted shrine to the lares (lare-eez) or guardian spirits of the place
- Bakery, another view showing the oven
- Bakery, another view showing the millstones used to grind flour
- Street Scenes: thermopolium, bakery, latrines and sewers, street signs, and the stepping stone crosswalks that let pedestrians avoid wading through the sewage that flowed through Pompeii's streets
- House of the Faun, named for a sculpture found in the impluvium
Impluvium, another view
Garden
More Images of the House of the Faun
More Images of the House of the Faun - House of the Vettii (vet-tee-ee), named for the family of Vettius
Lararium, another view
More Images of the House of the Vettii
Wall Paintings in the House of the Vettii
More Wall Paintings
More Wall Paintings
Virtual Tour of Pompeii
Conjectural Map of Pompeii
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the republic
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more games/interactive activities
GAMES
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_cdx.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_bfacademy.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_bfacademy.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_deathrome.shtml
ROMAN NUMERALS
http://ostermiller.org/calc/roman.html
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