Roman Housing Worksheet Mores

Roman Housing Worksheet

Fill in the blank and short answer

(50 pts. homework grade, due by lesson 45.)


What do you remember about a villa rustica? What are the names of the following rooms?

1. dining room _______________
2. kitchen _______________
3. bedrooms (use plural form) _______________
4. threshing floor _______________
5. garden _______________

6. Describe some other items one might find in a villa rustica that would not be found in a city home.

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7. Where would a villa maritima be located?________________________

8. The Latin word for shop is _______________.

9. What is a fons? _______________
10. What is a thermopolium? _______________
11. What is a pistrinum? _______________
12. What is a latrinum? _______________

13-17. Based on what you have seen during the lessons and found on the Internet, draw your own idea of what an insula might have looked like during the time of the empire. Use a separate paper to draw your insula.

Match the following English terms with their Latin equivalent:
17. ___ garden a. peristylium
18. ___ kitchen b. impluvium
19. ___ doors to the house c. culina
20. ___ study d. cubiculum
21. ___ hallway e. hortus
22. ___ pool f. fauces
23. ___ opening in the roof g. tablinum
24. ___ colonnades around the garden h. vestibulum
25. ___ bedroom i. compluvium

Optional Extra Credit:

    Build a model insula to display in your classroom, complete with people and furnishings. This is a new idea so I haven't determined how points should be assigned. Let me know if it interests you and we can discuss it.




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