A Virtual Field Trip
With your group, explore a specific aspect of city life.
The Forum
Questions after research:
With your group, explore a specific aspect of city life.
The Forum
- View of the Forum taken from overhead
- Temple of Apollo, another view
- The Macellum (ma-sell-um), the city's meat market
- The Macellum, wall paintings within the building
- Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, another view
- Sanctuary of the Genius of Augustus, views of the altar
- Thermopolium, another view
- Thermopolium, another view showing a painted shrine to the lares (lare-eez) or guardian spirits of the place
- Bakery, another view showing the oven
- Bakery, another view showing the millstones used to grind flour
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETd7pszxhnc
- House of the Faun, named for a sculpture found in the impluvium
Impluvium, another view
Garden - House of the Vettii (vet-tee-ee), named for the family of Vettius
Lararium, another view
Wall Paintings in the House of the Vettii
More Wall Paintings
More Wall Paintings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeB5N_bH7E8
Questions after research:
- As you view the images, try to visualize the site as it appeared two thousand years ago. What is missing from the scene (e.g., doors, roofs, furniture, wall decorations, litter, animals, etc.)? What sorts of people do you imagine coming to the site? What do you see them doing? How do they interact?
- Compare the site to a similar location in a modern-day city or town. What is our equivalent to this place? How do we behave there? When and why do we go there? What similarities help us understand Pompeiian society? What differences remind us that the ancient world is remote from the world of today?
- Create a list of the most interesting features noticed on your field trip. (These can be details explained in the image captions, such as the stepping stones built into Pompeii's streets to allow pedestrians to avoid the sewage that flowed there, or details that simply catch your eye)