Chapter 2

kind of grid plan that has been used earlier for Etruscan and Greek cities alike

walled settlement with four gates at cardinal points

most famous Roman city

Italian tribes that were the first to settle at Pompeii

they expanded original settlement and gave monumental shape to city center and were responsible for erecting the Temple of Jupiter

lies in the southwest corner of expanded Roman city; city’s main temple

standard Republican type

occupied the entire insula and had separate entrances and bathing facilities

used on occasion as a place of assembly and voting, its main purpose was to provide a locale for staging of plays

concert hall

“double theater”, resemble two Greek theaters, series of shallow concrete barrel vaults forms a giant retaining wall that supports the earthen mound and stone seats