- Visit a Pompeian Home -
This is what a typical Pompeian House looks likePompeian housing usually decides on your wealth. If you were rich you would get a very good structured house but if you were poor you would usually get an old rusty apartment. These apartments were called insulae and inside they would have a maximum of two bedrooms. The water wouldn’t always work so they had the poor had to take public baths, which are very cheap. They also had to eat at local inns, as it was not safe to use the gas and cook inside the apartment.
Whilst the poor had to live in this indecent house, the rich had it different. They would live in high quality houses with superior designs, which were built with stone. They would live in one-storey houses, which were built around a hall called an Atrium. Atrium had open-air rooms with no roofs and it was open for to the weather, the could collect the water when it rained. There was a backyard also called a peristylum, this included a garden. This was only built for the wealthy and they could all gather up here and socialize with people, there was also an undercover area in case of bad weather. The rich Houses in Pompeii contains a: Dining Room (also called a triclinium: There were usually a few benches crowding around a central table in the middle. Romans had seating plans in the dining room; the children would sit on chairs at a smaller table next to the main one where the adults would sit. There was usually more than one dining room per house. Sleeping Room: There were always sleeping rooms in houses, about 3 to four sleeping rooms on each floor. The rooms were quite small and if you were lucky there would be an extended space to your room for your bed making the room bigger. |