insula

(noun)

The Latin term for Roman apartment-style housing.

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(noun)

Apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome, including ordinary people of lower- or middle-class status (the plebians) and all but the wealthiest from the upper-middle class (the equites).

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Examples of insula in the following topics:

  • New Concept

    • Húius ínsulae Polydectés tum réx erat.

  • Jupiter Saves his Son

    • Húius ínsulae Polydectés tum réx erat.

  • Perseus Gets his Outfit

    • Perseus ubi haec audívit, ex ínsulá discessit, et postquam ad continentem vénit, Medúsam quaesívit.

  • Juppiter Saves his Son

    • Húius ínsulae Polydectés tum réx erat.

  • Ostia

    • Citizens of Ostia lived in apartment houses or insulae , which stood six or seven stories high.
    • The insulae of Ostia demonstrate the cramped and noisy living style that would have been common, not only in Ostia but also in Rome.
    • Shops, known as tabernae, occupied the ground level of insulae, while the upper stories housed apartments.

  • Architecture under Hadrian

    • Citizens of Ostia lived in apartment houses or insulae, which stood six or seven stories high.
    • The insulae of Ostia demonstrate the cramped and noisy living style that was common in Roman cities.
    • Shops, known as tabernae, occupied the ground level of the insulae, while the upper stories housed apartments.

  • Roman Society

    • Private housing ranged from elegant urban palaces and country villas for the social elites to crowded insulae (apartment buildings) for the majority of the population.

  • Cluster B: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders

    • Recent research has identified a structural abnormality in the brains of those with NPD, specifically noting less volume of gray matter in the left anterior insula.