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59 Cards in this Set
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oikos
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house
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andron
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boy
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gynaikeion
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girl
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domus
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house
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fauces
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entrance room
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atrium
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open greeting room
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impluvium
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collects rainwater
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compluvium
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hole in roof
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tablinum
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between atrium and peristyle court
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ala
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small closet
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triclinium
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dining room
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cubiculum
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bedroom
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peristyle court
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collonade surrounding court
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taberna
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shop
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villa
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country house
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insula
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lower class apartment
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ashlar masonry
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large rectangular blocks with smooth edges
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pozzolana
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reddish volcanic dust, reacts with lime and rubble. can set in damp conditions or under water.
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opus incertum
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irregular facing of small stones
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opus reticulatum
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small stones w/ a square face laid diagonally
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opus testaceum
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brick or tile facing
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opus quadratum
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squared blocks of stone in parrallel lines of same height
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voussoir
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wedge shape piece of stone for arch
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keystone
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center voussoir
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arcade
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row of arches
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barrel vault
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application of arch extended horizontally
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brick arch
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bricks?
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cross vault (groin)
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intersection of 2 vaults
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true arch
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basilica
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large roofed hall for business or legal matters
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forum
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public space in city
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pseudoperipteral
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free standing columns in front, columns along sides are engaged with walls
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'pastas' house
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Campus Martius
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place in rome with some dope buildings (i.e. pantheon, theater of marcellus)
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Agrippa
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Roman statesman and general. (63 BC - 12 BC) Built many aqueducts and original Panthenon.
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castrum
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outline wall of ostia
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decumanus
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central road in ostia running east/west
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cardo
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central road in ostia running north/south
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insula
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aparments blocks (important in ostia + pompeii)
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thermae
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public baths
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palaestra
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outdoor gym
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tepidarium
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warm bathroom heated by hypocaust
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caldarium
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hot room w/ steamy plunge (hypocaust)
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frigidarium
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large cold pool
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hypocaust
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heating system for warm/hot baths. furnace pumped hot air underground
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tubuli
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pipes that carried hot air up walls in hypocaust system
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pilae
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brick or concrete pilings that supported floor in a hypocaust system
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Severus and Celer
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Severus and Celer lived during the first century. Nero chose them as his architect-engineers for the Domus Aurea. Their work on the Domus Aurea, a palace-villa set down in the heart of Rome, shows that they rejected traditional Roman architecture in favor of a radically new architecture which utilized arches and which focussed on interior spaces.
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Rabirius
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Architect for Domitian (81-96). Designed Palentine Hill, maybe Colleseum.
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Apollodorus of Damascus
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Ancient Greek architect/enginner in 2nd century BC. Designed Trajan's Bridge, Trajan's Colum, and Forum Trajanum. Credited with Panthenon.
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'pumpkin'/umbrella dome
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Hadrian's Vill at Tivoli (see drawing in notes)
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oculus
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hole in roof (pantheon)
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brick ribs
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scaenae frons
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broken pediment
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see drawing in notes
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Syrian arch/pediment
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see notes
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arcuated colonnade
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arches line the border of the colonnade
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nyphaeum
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spolia
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re-use of earlier building material on new monuments
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