Classical Studies 3904G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Triclinium, Tablinum, Tepidarium
28 Feb 2017
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Weird expansion on a typical house: bought up the houses on the sides of the original, bigger house means more servants quarters. And the ability to keep the servants in a separate part of the house: bigger peristyle. Black panels with small scenes: tuscan style atrium with 4th style painted wall decoration. Small scenes in red and yellow panels. Nilotic scenes on upper register: east ala. Trojans that the greeks were inside the house. Strangled to death by snakes that a god sent to kill him. Ajax dragging cassandra from palladium before the eyes of priam: north wall. Cassandra and the wooden horse: east wall. Having scenes like this meant that they were educated as they could read. Some would send their sons to greece to be educated: stairwells to the upper floors have been preserved. Lecture: tablinum opens fully onto both atrium and back peristyle. M: a large triclinium on the east side of the house of.
