Suburani

1. SUBURA

CHAPTER 1 PDF

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Student Textbook:
Chapter 1

WEBLINKS

IMAGE GALLERY

A street in Ostia with buildings on either side which have upper floors.

Few apartment buildings from ancient times survive in Rome. This image shows a road in Ostia, the harbor town near Rome.

A busy street in modern Naples.

A street with apartment buildings from Ostia.

The remains of the Forum Augustus. A few columns are still standing in the foreground and a big wall towers behind.

This image shows a 100 ft 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.

The bust of an old man looking thoughtful.

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.

A ceramic oil lamp. It is round with a hole like a spout.

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.

A ceramic chamberpot. It is broken and you can see the museum inventory number written inside.

Sanitation was poor. Although some first-floor and possibly second-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.

Inside a room. The walls are made of brick and it is quite dark. There are low walls where the room would have been divided into smaller spaces.

The inside of the remains of an insula in Rome, built just a short distance from the temples of the Capitoline Hill.

A stone water fountain on a street corner. The tap of the fountain is coming from the mouth of a carved bull head.

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).

A wall painting with four jugs with handles in a line.

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 liter).

A bar covered in a mosaic pattern of large bits of stone.

A popina in Pompeii, with vats sunk into the bar.

A wall painting showing two men gambling with dice at a table. Two more men stand on either side watching.

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’.

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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

Sorting 1

Sorting 2

Vocabulary

Vocabulary
trainer

Audio

MAPS

REFERENCE

Vocabulary for learning

Timeline

Ancient authors

Expressions, mottoes, and abbreviations

DICTIONARY

Latin to English
dictionary

How to use the
dictionary

Latin to English
dictionary

English to Latin
dictionary

TEACHER RESOURCES (HANDS UP)

TEACHING NOTES

Teaching Notes:
Chapter 1

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

Optional additional language note (1)

LANGUAGE PRACTICE

Language Practice Exercise 3 (Differentiated)

ENGLISH TO LATIN

English to Latin: Teaching notes

Exercise 1: Identify the text

Exercise 2: Adapt the text

DERIVATIONS

Derivations: Chapter 1

Derivations: Chapter 1
(answer sheet)

CIVILIZATION, HISTORY, AND MYTHOLOGY

Additional evidence:
The Subura

Additional evidence:
Living in an insula

ASSESSMENT

Chapter 1 Assessment
(write on sheet)

Chapter 1 Assessment
(write in books)

Chapter 1 Assessment
(answer sheet)

FUN AND GAMES

Let's play: Alea

Build your own Subura!

Let's play: Word Cloud

AUDIO

▶1. Sabina

▶2. Lucilius

▶3. nox

TEACHER RESOURCES (COMMUNITY)

read me

Stories

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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