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Lifestyles of the Roman Rich and Famous: Houses and Villas at Pompeii — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:12:12 +0000

[…] [Addressed here] is the public architecture of Pompeii, about the forum, about the temples, about the basilica, about the baths, and also about shops, and tombs as well. [Now we] turn to the residential architecture of Pompeii; residential architecture that is extremely important, not only for what it tells us about Pompeii, but what it also tells us about domestic architecture in the first centuries BCE and the first century CE, because there is no place where the houses are better preserved than at Pompeii. So it tells us again, not just about the city itself, but also about residential architecture in Rome, where we have very few examples, and elsewhere in the Roman world. […]

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