Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Dining Room, Triclinium, Impluvium

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

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The most important room is the atrium. Daily schedule: work six hours a day, around 70 holiday days, used sundials and said from sunrise to sunset is 12 hours. There was a doorway that led to the back garden, that could be seen from the front of the house: you wanted people to be able to see how busy and influential you were. The throat: the hallway leading into the house, sometimes mosaics were on the floors of the throat, there would be a slave like a doorman or a dog to guard the house. They would be a gallery where you would put statues or. The study and bedrooms (t) anything important: bedrooms didn(cid:495)t have a lot of furniture and had an excessive amount, study called (cid:494)tablinum(cid:495, where the master of the house would wait for his clients of wall paintings.