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GCSE Classics · key term
A Roman multi-storey apartment building, often containing rented accommodation; the plural is insulae.
Used by OCR
Paper 4
A Roman apartment building containing several dwellings, often with shops at street level. The plural is insulae.
Revise: Roman HousingFire was particularly dangerous for those on the upper floors: they had farther to travel before reaching safety. These were serious risks, not proof that every insula was badly built.
A Roman urban apartment building; the same Latin word can also mean a city block.
The Insula of Diana is named after a relief of Diana, not a freestanding statue. Its original total number of storeys is uncertain.
Use named evidence rather than general claims about ‘the Romans’. Compare the House of Menander at Pompeii with the Insula of Diana at Ostia.
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A Roman block of flats; the term can also have other meanings, but this is its meaning for the Insula of Diana.