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The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii owes its fame to the exquisite wall paintings that cover the walls of one of its reception rooms. A mysterious scene with life-size figures in the Second Pompeian Style seems to depict the initiation...

The bronze statue portrays a drunken elderly Satyr, lying on a rock covered with a lionskin. It adorned the swimming pool in the middle of the peristilium (four-sided colonnade with a central garden) of the Villa of the Papyri, a luxury villa...

Fresco in the Second Pompeian Style with a basket of fruit covered by a very thin veil. 1st century BCE. Oplontis Villa Poppaea (also known as Oplontis Villa A), Italy.

The Dionysus Villa in Dion in Macedonia (Greece) is a sprawling, luxurious private residence dating to the 2nd century CE. The villa complex was originally built with five interconnecting tetrastyle courtyards and atrium gardens. It was modified...

The upper peristyle of Villa San Marco in Stabiae (Italy), with its surrounding portico and spiral-fluted columns, was added to the villa in the later years of its existence (just before 79 CE). The ceiling of the portico was lavishly decorated...

The partly reconstructed buildings of Villa Regina at Boscoreale (Italy) with a replanted vineyard in the excavated area. This rustic villa, discovered in 1977 CE, consists of various rooms set around three sides of an open courtyard. It...

In the late 6th century BCE, the small city-state of Rome overthrew the shackles of monarchy and created a republican government that, in theory if not always in practice, represented the wishes of its citizens. From this basis the city would...

From the days of the hoplites through the creation of the legionary until the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, the Roman army remained a feared opponent, and the Roman legionary's weapons and armor, albeit with minor modifications, remained...

Ancient Roman culture affected vast numbers of people across the known world of its time, beginning with the rise of the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE) and throughout the duration of the Roman Empire (27 BCE - c. 476 CE in the West and 1453...

Fresco Panel Depicting Dionysos and Ariadne, between 1 and 79 CE. Nude but for the drapery swirling around them, Bacchus and his consort Ariadne walk with arms entwined against a plain white background, as if floating. Ariadne lifts a...