. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ouses here also prove the existence of a second floor, the windowsof which, of course, lay towards the street (see Fig. 388). CASA DI CHAMPIONNET. 365 Rome, of course, differed in many respects from provincialtowns. Originally built without a plan and on uneven ground,its narrow angular streets were inhabited, about the time ofthe Antonines, by nearly a million and a half of people. Onlythe wealthy could have houses of their own, the middle andpoorer classes living in hired lodgings. Speculators erectedhouses of many stories, of light woodwork or bad materi
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ouses here also prove the existence of a second floor, the windowsof which, of course, lay towards the street (see Fig. 388). CASA DI CHAMPIONNET. 365 Rome, of course, differed in many respects from provincialtowns. Originally built without a plan and on uneven ground,its narrow angular streets were inhabited, about the time ofthe Antonines, by nearly a million and a half of people. Onlythe wealthy could have houses of their own, the middle andpoorer classes living in hired lodgings. Speculators erectedhouses of many stories, of light woodwork or bad material,repairs were neglected, and enormous rents had to make up forthe losses of the owners caused by their houses breaking down orbeing consumed by fire—daily occurrences in Eome. As earlyas the Republic houses of three or four flats were common in a law of Augustus the street-frontage of do private house wasallowed to exceed 70 feet (Roman measure), which limit was,after the fire of Nero, further reduced to 60 feet. a b g d. Fig. 387. To conclude we add (Fig. 387) the section of a regular andtasteful middle-class house, the so-called Casa di Championnet,at Pompeii: a indicates the passage leading from the street to theatrium; b the atrium, the ceiling of which is carried by fourslender columns: here lies the altar-like mouth (puteal) of acistern, also met with in the peristylium of the house of Pansa ;c is the tablinum, the walls of which are still adorned withpaintings; d the peristylium, the open space of which is occupiedby a cavity used as a conservatory; underneath this is a vaultedcellar (hypogmim) for the keeping of stores. 76. We add a few further remarks about the outwardappearance of the houses, as also about certain modificationsof their ordinary design. About the facades we know but little,seeing that in Pompeii all the upper stories of houses have 366 FACADES, DOORS, AND WINDOWS. been destroyed. Most likely they were generally in very simpletaste ; for ant
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