Romans @ MindSay 
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1 Atrium
2 Peristylium
3 Vestibulum
4 Fauces
5 Impluvium
6 Ala
7 Triclinium
8 Tablinum
9 Exhedra/Oecus
10 Taberna
11 Cubiculum
12 Andron
13 Posticum
14 Bathroom
15 Cucina (kitchen)
1.When you enter one the first room you enter is the "Atrium" which was a big room which usually had guests in it.
2. A peristylum is a larger inner court of a roman house.
3. & 4. These are types of corridors.
5. In the roof of a Domus was a small hole which had a basin underneath it to collect rainwater, this is called the Impluvium.
6. The alae were small rooms around the Atrium.
7. The Triclinium is the Roman equivalent to a dining room.
8. The Tablinum is a large reception area usually not seperated from the other rooms with very many walls, sometime was seperated with curtains.
9. The Exhedra or the Oecus was a large dining room.
10. The Taberna was a small room which could be used as a shop.
11. The cubiculum is a bedroom.
12. The andron was a passageway from the atrium to the peristylium.
13. The Posticum is any entrance usually for the slaves to enter. It was sometimes used by visitors or the owner of the house if they wanted to get in or out confidentially.
14. "self explanatory"
15. Cucina is the kitchen.
1. Atrium.
2. Garden.
3. Bedroom.
Random Fact: there were around 120 bars/pubs in Pompeii which would sell wine, figs, dates and nuts in strange little holes in the counter.
Many rich romans had a "Villa" or a "country house" to go on holiday to. but the majority of them who had a country house owned a little Celtic styled house like the one in the picture below.
Only about 1 percent of Romans were rich enough to own a country house.
Many villas had bathing suites, underfloor heating and mosaics of mythological scenes. In the below picture is a mosaic found in a dining room floor of a villa.
There were usually 3 bathing rooms in a Villa, A "caldarium" which was a very hot room, A "tepidarium" which was a warm room and a "frigidarium" which was of course a cold room.
Insula is the Latin word for Island.
The higher the floors were, the cheaper and less likable the rooms were.
Insulas were mainly unpleasant places to live in because of poverty and violence so only lower class and some middle class Romans lived in them. Most of the Roman population would come under this category. 
Random Fact: Romans also had graffiti, it was found in similar places as today and was usually about elections.
Started reading Romans 8:18 this morning, some more on my theme of the week: Perspective.
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.- Romans 8:18
Paul gains strength from perspective: he knows that the problems he's dealing with in his ministry are transitory and unimportant - when viewed in the light of what God is doing, and will do, in and though us.
You see this theme throughout Paul's writing: for example, in 2 Corinthians 5, he refers to his body as a ``tent'', contrasted with ``a building from God, an eternal house in heaven''. In the previous chapter of 2 Corinthians, he expands on this theme further:
Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.- 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
It's as well to think about those ``light and momentary troubles'' of Paul's when we start to feel the weight of our own troubles: there's a partial list of what Paul went through in 2 Corinthians 11:23-33.
Yet all of this, Paul considered ``light and momentary troubles'', because he had vision to see beyond this temporary world to what is unseen and eternal: ``the glory that will be revealed in us''.
Paul's key insight, which does not come easily to our minds, is that what it seen is temporary, and what is unseen is eternal. Our immediate experience, of course, is the opposite: what is seen feels very real and solid, because we live in this world every day; we touch it, we hear its noises, we eat its food. In the face of this constant sensory assault, the things Paul's talking about can seem very far-off and vague to us. But the bible assures us that this is an illusion. From a quote in C. S. Lewis's The Last Battle, the Jesus figure of the Narnia allegory addresses the human characters in heaven:
All of you are - as you used to call it in the Shadowlands - dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.- C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle
I love Lewis's choice of the name ``Shadowlands'', with its implication that the world his characters used to live in - the world that we live in today - is insubstantial, and illusion, merely the shadow cast by a greater and truer reality. And this is what Paul teaches.
Love and Laughter,
Dawn
-Dr J. Wallace Hamilton
I know that the religious leaders of the time often felt insulted about what he said about them, but I hadn't really put it all together that way before. I like introducing new facets to what I think - I've been chewing on this one for a few days to see how it matches against what I already know to be true. I've come to the conclusion that, if the Bible is to be believed, it's as accurate as our current picture. Christ was indeed a revolutionist, and the Bible does speak of him being angry. But I don't think it's a false picture to say that Christ was gentle or mild - he put himself forth as a servant, he showed sorrow when someone he loved chose something else.
The false picture, then, is an incomplete one, saying either that Christ was always meek or always antagonizing.
What do you say the truth is?
When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"
They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
(Matthew 16:13-15)
Yes... I'm a geek but... I don't care.
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