Large space running lengthways, used as a passage and connection between the various rooms overlooking it. The corridor also takes on the role of a reception antechamber in private villas such as Casale, when it is located in front of the basilica. ...

The unique structure of the portal of the late antiquity residence, which is reminiscent of the Roman triumphal arches was characterised by three passages covered with semicircular vaults. It is unrivalled by other private Roman villas of the same period consisting of a single entrance. One example...

The triclinium can be considered the dining room of the Roman domus, and refers more to a reception room for guests. Its name comes from its furniture, consisting of lecti triclinaris, i.e. large sofas that could accommodate up to three people, where the Romans would eat lying down. The hall, which...

The large quadrangular atrium in the centre of the house is the peristyle. It is surrounded by a portico that connects and gives access to the various rooms of the Roman domus. The peristyle usually includes a garden embellished with statues, fountains and resting places. ...

The peristyle is the colonnaded portico, quadrangular in shape, that connects and gives access to the various rooms of the Roman domus. The peristyle encloses a garden within it, usually embellished with statues and fountains....

The Antonine Itinerary is a collection of routes that cross every region in the Roman Empire, from Britannia to Byzantium. Its purpose has been the subject of various interpretations, perhaps as a testimony of the Roman mail system or a record of a series of imperial journeys. This important documen...

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...

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...