- Unit 4. Urbanism and Art
- Getting Started
  - What Are We Learning?
  - Observe and Think
  - Map Your Mind
- Urbanism and Architecture
  - The Greek City
    - Urbanism
    - Housing
    - The Acropolis & Agora of Athens
  - Greek Architecture
    - Parthenon
  - The Roman City
    - Urbanism
    - Housing
    - Urbs Roma
  - Roman Architecture
    - The Colosseum
- Sculpture and Painting
  - Greek Sculpture
  - Roman Sculpture
  - Greek and Roman Painting
- Self-Evaluation Quiz
- Complementary Activities
  - The Greek and Latin Roots of English
  - One Myth, One Song
  - Games, Comics and Stuff
- References

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# Housing

In cities, the Romans lived in two types of houses, domus and insula whose parts and distribution you can see in the infographies below by Thomas K Wukitsh. (Click to enlarge).

## Activity

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In the country, villas were built. These were large farms with just one owner. The owner and his family lived in a mansion many times bigger than the average domus. The peasants and slaves who worked on the farm lived in huts nearby.

Roman villa at Fishbourne, West Sussex, U.K.

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