The vestibule constitutes the entrance or antechamber of the Roman house, but over time its location has differed in different kinds of dwellings. In the domus italica with an atrium and hortus and in the Hellenistic domus, both found in the Republican period, there is a consecutive succession of r...

Titus Lucretius Carus was a Latin poet and thinker who lived in the 1st century BC. His exact date of birth and death is unknown, as is his place of birth, but general references are made to an area in Campania. One piece of information about his life that is certain concerns his madness due to a ...

In Gerace, in the territory of Enna, around 15 km from the Villa del Casale, some rooms of a villa with mosaic floors have been found, connected to some furnaces and a thermal bath system.The complex, currently being excavated by the University of British Columbia in Canada, dates back to the second...

In Gerace, in the territory of Enna, around 15 km from the Villa del Casale, some rooms of a villa with mosaic floors have been found, connected to some furnaces and a thermal bath system. The complex, currently being excavated by the University of British Columbia in Canada, dates back to the seco...

The Antonine Itinerary, a list of roads of the Roman Empire with their distances and intermediate stops, was drawn up in the 2nd century AD, with one version dating back to the 4th century AD. For Sicily, it indicates the presence of the mansio Philosophiana on the internal road connecting Catina an...

The Antonine Itinerary (Itinerarium Antonini), a list of roads of the Roman Empire with their distances and intermediate stops, was drawn up in the 2nd century AD, with one version dating back to the 4th century AD. For Sicily, it indicates the presence of the mansio Philosophiana on the internal r...

In some areas of Sicily, some Roman villas dating back to the 3rd to 4th century AD have been identified.  A particularly well known seaside villa situated along the northern coast of Sicily is Patti Marina, in the town of Tindari. The excavations brought to light a vast area that might include bo...

The latifundium is a large agricultural plot of land, usually belonging to a single landowner. There was at least one large farm, called pars or villa rustica in Roman times, plus several houses for settlers and accommodation for the many slaves, who were essential for work in the fields. The harv...

The latifundium is alarge agricultural plot of land, usually belonging to a single landowner. There was at least one large farm, called pars or villa rustica in Roman times, plus several houses for settlers and accommodation for the many slaves, who were essential for work in the fields. The owner ...

The villa’s sector, located near the main residence, at the service of this and the territory is formed of areas for agricultural production, accommodation for the farmer, the vilicus, servants and other workers of the fundus, but also buildings for processing and storing products (mills, wine cel...