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 Antonine Itinerary is a collection of routes crossing 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. T his 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...

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...