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10 Choose the correct word to fill in the gap: roman arcitecture Part II

In Roman architecture there were three types of 1) _____: the domus; the insula, and the villa.

The domus, or town house, consisted of 2) _____ of rooms grouped around a central hall, or atrium, to which were often added further suites at the rear, grouped around a 3) _____ court, or peristyle. In Rome the chief examples of domus are the house of Vestals in the Forum in Rome and that of Livia on the Palatine Hill.

Great blocks of flats or 4) _____ were called insulae. Excavations at Ostia, Italy, have revealed the 5) _____ of these blocks. Planed on three or four floors with strict regard to economy of space, they depended on light from the 6) _____ as well as from a central 7) _____. Independent apartments had separate 8) _____ with direct access to the street.

The Latin word villa pertained to an estate, complete with house, grounds, and 9) _____ buildings. Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, began about AD 123, was a sumptuous 10) _____ with parks and gardens on a large scale.

court, tenements, houses, residence, suites, colonnaded, subsidiary, exterior, entrances, design

11 Fill in the gaps with derivatives of the words in capitals: roman arcitecture

Part III

The Romans were great 1) _____ and engineers famous for their factories, roads, aqueducts and bridges, grand thermae and amphitheatres, theatres and temples.

The 2) _____ surviving circular temple of antiquity, and in many respects the most important Roman building, is the Pantheon in Rome. It consists of rotunda about 142 feet in diameter 3) _____ by concrete walls 20 feet thick, in which are alternate circular and rectangular niches. Light is admitted through a central 4) _____, or oculus, about 28 feet across, at the crown of the dome.

The largest and most important amphitheatre of Rome was the Coliseum, built by the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian in about AD 70/75 -85. Covering six acres (2.4. hectares), it had seating for about 50.000 spectators, and its 80 5) _____ were so arranged that the building could be cleared quickly. The whole is 6) _____ of concrete, the exterior faced with travertine and the interior with precious marbles.

Other important amphitheatres are those at Verona, Italy; Pula, Yugoslavia; and Arles, France.

7) _____ thermae were more than baths. They were immense 8) _____ of great magnificence, with facilities for every gymnastic exercise and halls in which 9) _____, poets, rhetoricians, and those who wished to hear them gathered.

The best preserved are the Baths of Caracalla (begun c. AD 217), which covered an area about 1.000 feet square, and those of Diocletian (c. AD 298-306), with 10) _____ for 3.200 bathers.

BUILD

GREAT

SURROUND

OPEN

ENTER

BUILD

IMPERIUM

ESTABLISH

PHILOSOPHY

ACCOMMODATE

12 Choose the right term for the following definition:

  1. town-house

  1. forum

  1. domus

  1. basilica

  1. central hall

  1. villa

  1. rotunda

  1. atrium

  1. block of flats

  1. insula

  1. order

  1. thermae

  1. suburban or country house

  1. interior

  1. villa

  1. domus

  1. a colonnaded court

  1. façade

  1. peristyle

  1. thermae

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