Ancient Roman Villas

Ancient Roman Villas

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When we think of ancient Roman villas our minds tend to ramble amongst ideas of luxury and palatial buildings, possibly in cities such as Rome or even Pompeii though Pompeii was actually a relatively provincial town. Perhaps the right idea is to be had from some of those Roman paintings within some houses of Pompeii which depict the luxurious villas on the coast: the very same ones which writers such as Pliny the elder and Pliny the younger retired to frequently on the coast south of Rome and towards the bay of Naples.

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