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Roman Housing
Insula
• Apartment buildings (in
cities like Rome)
• Housed middle to lower
class
• More poorly constructed
than atrium houses
• Larger and more expensive
apartments on the bottom;
smaller, more crowded on top
• Whole extended families often
lived in one apartment
Villa
• Wealthier Roman families might live in a villa or
townhouse
• Some were only 1 story high, some had a second floor
• They had a variety of smaller rooms opening off of 2 large
spaces
Rooms in a Villa
faucēs (entrance hall)
tabernae (shops)
ātrium (main/front room w/ opening in ceiling for rainwater)
cubiculum (bedroom)
triclīnium (dining room)
culīna (kitchen)
tablīnum (study/office)
peristȳlium (garden court)
hortus (garden)