History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . r having more thanten pounds weight of silverware in his house. A generation later World Dominion and Degeneracy 221 a wealthy Roman was using in his household silverware whichweighed some ten thousand pounds. One of the Roman con-querors of Macedonia entered Rome with two hundred and fiftywagonloads of Greek statues and paintings. Even in so smalla city as Pompeii, a citizen of wealth paved a handsome diningalcove with a magnificentmosaic picture of Alex- rs?«4f>58 ander in battle, whichhad once formed a f
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . r having more thanten pounds weight of silverware in his house. A generation later World Dominion and Degeneracy 221 a wealthy Roman was using in his household silverware whichweighed some ten thousand pounds. One of the Roman con-querors of Macedonia entered Rome with two hundred and fiftywagonloads of Greek statues and paintings. Even in so smalla city as Pompeii, a citizen of wealth paved a handsome diningalcove with a magnificentmosaic picture of Alex- rs?«4f>58 ander in battle, whichhad once formed a floorin a splendid Hellenisticresidence in Alexandria(§ 275). The atrium thusbecame a large and statelyreception hall where themaster of the house coulddisplay his wealth instatues, paintings, andother works of art—thesplendid trophies of warbrought from the East. Pipes for running water,baths, and sanitary con-veniences were likewisequickly introduced. Somehouses even had tile pipesconducting hot air forwarmth, the earliest sys-tem of hot-air heating yetfound. The kitchen was. Fig. 58. A Roman Atrium-House ofTHE Old Days There was no attempt at beautiful archi-tecture, and the bare front showed no adorn-ment whatever. The opening in the roof,which hghted the atrium (§ 343), receivedthe rainfall of a section of the roof slopingtoward it, and this water collected in a poolbuilt to receive it in the floor of the atriumbelow (Fig. 59, B). The tiny area, or garden,shown in the rear was not common. It washere that the later Romans added the Hel-lenistic peristyle (Figs. 51, 59, and 60) furnished with .bronzeutensils far better than those commonly found in our own luxury required a great body of household was a doorkeeper at the front door (he was called jani-tor from the Latin werd janua, meaning door), and from thefront door inward there was a servant for every small duty inthe house. Almost all these menials were slaves.
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