Private Life: As we go though this material, think about what the images indicate about the standards of living, the state of the arts and culture, the amenities of urban life.

Housing in an urban context. Ostia; Pompeii ...

• city views: scene1, scene2; scene3; fantasy city? guess where? Colonnade ; crane;
• housing: plan, atrium and peristyle; another plan; of the house of the Vettii, house of the faun (reconstruction); smaller house ; an atrium ; housing amenities
• household work idealized
• decoration: marine mosaic, floor pattern, standard flooring; wall mosaic, more mosaics: one ; two ; frescos: one, decorated wall1, wall2;
• Ostia: apartment building; another; reconstruction and another; street scene and a reconstruction; in the neighborhood; the main "drag". Classical facade; and another.

Private Life:

• Taverns and Theater: tavern life;gaming; at play; food service, drinkers; the price of wine; music
• theater district at Pompeii; reconstruction
• Clothing men and for women; diagram
• Sexuality: young love; marriage; family; "love" and sex; a couple. Priapus.
• Women: idealized; at mirror; weaving; spindles; portrait2, portrait3; monument to a loving wife; midwife; matrons ; female slave? a Flavian beauty.
• Men:portrait1, portrait3; man at home.

Food and Cuisine,

• some basics; grains, bakery, idealized? gristmill; distribution of bakeries; buying bread, selling bread; in one town, banquet scene.
• butcher; the general store; women shopping.
• meat, fish (and market) and milk products ; harvesting and selling olives.
• kitchen: ; kitchen; culina; cooks at work ; food served.

Religion:

• traditional religion: the instruments; sacrifical procession; the act, and an alternate. a corporate act; ritual events. ritual act ; an offering
• alien influence
• Bacchus; cult of Isis
• ecstatic experience

Economy:

• a market scene; table of standard weights and measures; money-changer; scribes; workshop; in reality
• retail trade and fabrication:
  • shop; reconstruction; the real thing. knife shop; fuller ; cloth shop; and;
  • flaxmakers at Ostia; tannery .
  • Shop fronts (reconstruction); galleria
• mason; his tools; soldier; local police; an olive press ; laborers
• harbor; cargo ship; sailors union; wharf; moving freight; winemaking; wine sales
• land transport: carts; carts and selling; donkeytrain ; then and now

Some texts: On resources...§23; §27 (p. 108); §31 (the Roman market); §33ii, §42 social criticism; §48 freedmen and another; their patrons; §50 legislation on slaves; §54 tombstones

Some surviving Romans: the great equalizer: a family scene; a loner; a pet; calcus.