Classics roman houses

• Insula


  a block of flats
• Domus


  a townhouse in the city
• Menander


  A writer of Greek comedies, a painting of whom is found in a domus that bears his name
• Atrium


  entrance hall of a Roman house
• Impluvium


  indoor "pool" of rainwater used for drinking water, washing etc.
• Compluvium


  hole in roof through which rainwater fell
• Lararium


  shrine to the gods of a household, often found in the corner of an atrium
• Cubiculum


  a bedroom
• Culina


  Latin word for kitchen, a room rarely found in houses.
• Octavius Quartio


  Possible owner of a house with an enormous garden at the back
• House of the Wooden Partition


  House in Herculaneum where a central feature is decorated with brass lamp-posts that look like ships
• Taberna


  Latin word for "shop"; rooms were often rented at the front of houses for these.
• Peristylium


  The garden.
• Tablinum


  Either the master's study or his main bedroom, located usually between the entrance hall and the garden.
• Fresco


  Artwork painted onto a wall.
• Narcissus


  Mythological boy who fell in love with his own reflection, shown in the House of Octavius Quartio
• Actaeon


  Boy torn apart by his own hunting dogs for seeing the goddess Diana naked, shown in the outside shrine at the House of Octavius Quartio
• Ostia


  Rome's main port, location of the block of flats that is a prescribed source.
• Mezzanine


  A "floor within a floor", such as that found within a block of flats.
• Centre


  The House of Menander's garden is located at this point relative to all the other rooms of the house.