Classics Roman entertainment

• cavea


  Seating areas of a Roman amphitheatre
• Theatre


  Horseshoe shaped theatre used for plays and recitations
• orchestra


  semi-circular or circular area used for chorus/actors during plays
• skene/scaena


  Stage building, on which actors stood and scenery was hung
• ima cavea


  lowest seating and most desirable because closest to the action. For ViPs and the wealth
• media cavea


  Mid-tier seating
• summa cavea


  Back seating - worst view. For lowest classes
• The two Holconii (brothers or fathers)


  Patrons of the large theatre in Pompeii
• palaestra


  Exercise ground and used for gladiator training
• apodyterium


  changing-rooms with space for storing clothes (like lockers)
• sudatorium


  dry sweat room like a sauna
• caldarium


  hot room - very hot bath
• tepidarium

  warm room, sit here to cool off gradually
• Hadrian


  Banned mixed gender bathing
• hypocaust


  Centreal heating system of baths
• amphitheatre


  Oval stadium, used for gladiator fights
• lanista


  gladiator trainer/manager
• ludus


  gladiator school
• rudis


  wooden sword signifying a gladiator's freedom
• murmillo


  heavily armed with fish crest helmet and no visor, curved legionary shield, legionary sword
• secutor


  heavily armed with distinctive helmet with 2 eye holes to protect from tridents
• hoplomachus


  fought like Greek hoplite with spear and round shield
• retiarius


  net fighter, trident, light armour
• bestiarius


  fought wild animals
• Flavian Amphitheatre


  The Colosseum in Rome
• 50,000


  Seating capacity of the colosseum
• brick and concrete


  Materials of the colosseum
• vomitoria


  walkways and stairways to allow exit from colosseum
• awning


  protected spectators in colosseum from the sun
• Circus Maximus

  Chariot racing venue in Rome
• spina


  central divider of Circus Maximus
• meta


  turning point of Circus Maximus
• 250,000


  Seating capacity of Circus Maximus
• pulvinar


  Emperor's box in the Circus MAximus
• quadrigae


  4 horse chariots
• falx


  Knife carried by charioteers to cut their way out of crash
• Greens


  The colour of team most popular with the common people
• Dolphins


  Animal which marked laps of a chariot race