1. SUBURA
CHAPTER 1 PDF
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WEBLINKS
IMAGE GALLERY
Few blocks of flats from ancient times survive in Rome. This image shows a road in Ostia, the harbour town near Rome.
A busy street in modern Naples.
A street with apartment buildings from Ostia
This image shows a 30 m high firewall built from nearly indestructible volcanic rock. The wall separated the Forum of Augustus, of which the remains can be seen in the foreground, from the Subura. The wall ensured fires couldn’t spread to the Forum from the apartment blocks of the Subura, and also created a physical barrier between the grand, marble Forum and the cramped and dirty Subura behind it.
Seneca, a well-known Roman intellectual, was tutor and adviser to the young Emperor Nero during the early part of his reign.
Replica Roman roof tiles.
The inhabitants of the insula would have used oil lamps to light their rooms. They usually burned olive oil, as it was widely available.
This ceramic oil lamp is decorated with a charioteer driving a two-horse chariot.
This ceramic oil lamp is decorated with a charioteer driving a two-horse chariot.
Sanitation was poor. Although some ground-floor and possibly first-floor apartments had lavatories, for the most part people used chamber pots (like the one pictured), urinated in the street, or went to one of the public lavatories. There were giant clay pots in the street for collecting urine and emptying chamber pots, and other waste went into the sewer.
Above: inside of the remains of an insula in Rome, built just a short distance from the temples of the Capitoline Hill.
There was often no running water in the insula, so people would have to collect water from public fountains (like this one from Pompeii, in Italy).
Sign advertising wines for sale at a popina in Herculaneum, in Italy. The popina is called ad cucumās (at the cooking pots).
Four different wines are sold, at 4, 3, 4, and 2 assēs (pence) per sextārius (about half a litre).
Four different wines are sold, at 4, 3, 4, and 2 assēs (pence) per sextārius (about half a litre).
A popina in Pompeii, with vats sunk into the bar.
A wall painting from Pompeii, showing people playing dice in a popina.
Gold coin with the head of Nero, from AD 66. It is printed with the words IMP NERO CAESAR AVGVSTVS. IMP is an abbreviation of imperātor, which means ‘emperor’.
ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
Autograded translations
Autograded translation:
Language practice
Chpt 1, Ex. 1 (1.1)
Autograded translation:
Language practice
Chpt 1, Ex. 2 (1.2)
Autograded translation:
Language practice
Chpt 1, Ex. 3 (1.3)
Sorting
Vocabulary
Audio
REFERENCE
DICTIONARY
TEACHER RESOURCES (HANDS UP)
TEACHING NOTES
STORIES - SABINA
Story text:
Sabina
Rearrange the story:
Sabina
Illustrated story without text: Subura (colour)
Illustrated story without text: Subura (b+w)
decem quaestiones Latine: Sabina
decem quaestiones Latine: Sabina (answers)
STORIES - LUCILIUS
Story text:
Lucilius
Rearrange the story:
Lucilius
decem quaestiones Latine: Lucilius
decem quaestiones Latine: Lucilius (answers)
STORIES - NOX
Story text:
nox
Rearrange the story:
nox
decem quaestiones Latine: nox
decem quaestiones Latine: nox (answers)
LANGUAGE NOTES
LANGUAGE PRACTICE
ENGLISH TO LATIN
English to Latin: Teaching notes
Exercise 1: Identify
Exercise 2: Adapt
Exercise 3: Select
Exercise 4: Translate
Exercise 5: Create
DERIVATIONS
CIVILIZATION, HISTORY, AND MYTHOLOGY
ASSESSMENT
An assessment is provided for every chapter, consisting of a new Latin story followed by comprehension questions and a short translation, totalling 50 marks. There is also a short grammar assessment totalling 10 marks. Students are expected to know the vocabulary listed in the chapter learning lists (other vocabulary is provided). To maintain the integrity of the assessments, they are not reproduced here.
FUN AND GAMES
AUDIO
TEACHER RESOURCES (COMMUNITY)
read meStories
Story 1: Sabina
Story 2: Lucilius
Story 3: nox
Language
Further language materials
Vocabulary
Civilization
The Subura
The population of the city of Rome
Women at work
Living in an insula
History
Rome in AD 64
Assessments
Chapter 1: Assessments
Games and activities
Chapter 1: Games and activities
Miscellaneous
Chapter 1: Miscellaneous
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