CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pater Familias, Impluvium, Tablinum
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Cla233 lecture 8 (first after test), housing. Villa in latin means farmhouse, could be small or enormous insula is an apartment dwelling, impossible in practice to know everything about housing but jones and sidwell make educated deductions. Houses wouldn"t have many windows (crime is very common, constructed for defence), heavy carefully constructed, domus functions as a sort of border for pater familias. Impluvium is opening in doorway for water and light, tablinum (room behind atrium) is where you would keep family records/documents (could also deal with visitors there). Further in the house you could go the more honored you were by the family. Smaller rooms in the back would msotliekly be used by business, btut general rule is that the further you get to the back o the house the more private it was (dining rooms were at the back).
