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- Roman_villa abstract "A Roman villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper class during the Roman republic and the Roman Empire. According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another city) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate. The villa rustica centered on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied. Under the Empire there was a concentration of Imperial villas near the Bay of Naples, especially on the Isle of Capri, at Monte Circeo on the coast and at Antium (Anzio). Wealthy Romans escaped the summer heat in the hills round Rome, especially around Frascati (cf. Hadrian's Villa). Cicero is said to have possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which was near Arpinum, which he inherited. Pliny the Younger had three or four, of which the example near Laurentium is the best known from his descriptions.The Empire contained many kinds of villas, not all of them lavishly appointed with mosaic floors and frescoes. In the provinces, any country house with some decorative features in the Roman style may be called a "villa" by modern scholars. Some were pleasure houses such as those— like Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli— that were sited in the cool hills within easy reach of Rome or— like the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum— on picturesque sites overlooking the Bay of Naples. Some villas were more like the country houses of England or Poland, the visible seat of power of a local magnate, such as the famous palace rediscovered at Fishbourne in Sussex. Suburban villas on the edge of cities were also known, such as the Middle and Late Republican villas that encroached on the Campus Martius, at that time on the edge of Rome, and which can be also seen outside the city walls of Pompeii. These early suburban villas, such as the one at Rome's Auditorium site or at Grottarossa in Rome, demonstrate the antiquity and heritage of the villa suburbana in Central Italy. It is possible that these early, suburban villas were also in fact the seats of power (maybe even palaces) of regional strongmen or heads of important families (gentes). A third type of villa provided the organizational center of the large holdings called latifundia, that produced and exported agricultural produce; such villas might be lacking in luxuries. By the 4th century, villa could simply connote an agricultural holding: Jerome translated the Gospel of Mark (xiv, 32) chorion, describing the olive grove of Gethsemane, with villa, without an inference that there were any dwellings there at all (Catholic Encyclopedia "Gethsemane").".
- Roman_villa thumbnail Roman_Villa_Rustica_Model_.jpg?width=300.
- Roman_villa wikiPageID "39845".
- Roman_villa wikiPageRevisionID "606072093".
- Roman_villa below "The Roman villa was a country house. Luxurious villas were the main residence of many wealthy citizens. By the end of the Western Roman Empire the word can mean any country house above peasant standard.".
- Roman_villa belowstyle "background:#ddf;".
- Roman_villa data "A Roman city house was limited in size. The very rich could afford luxurious country estates spread out across many acres.".
- Roman_villa data "All three defined".
- Roman_villa data "Patrician, Senatorial class, Equestrian class, Plebeian, Freedman,".
- Roman_villa hasPhotoCollection Roman_villa.
- Roman_villa header Ancient_Rome.
- Roman_villa label Social_class_in_ancient_Rome.
- Roman_villa label "All three defined".
- Roman_villa name "Infobox/Roman villa".
- Roman_villa title "Roman villa".
- Roman_villa subject Category:Ancient_Roman_architecture.
- Roman_villa subject Category:Roman_villa.
- Roman_villa comment "A Roman villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper class during the Roman republic and the Roman Empire. According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another city) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.".
- Roman_villa label "Roman villa".
- Roman_villa label "Romeinse villa".
- Roman_villa label "Römisches Haus".
- Roman_villa label "Vila romana".
- Roman_villa label "Villa romaine".
- Roman_villa label "Villa romana".
- Roman_villa label "Villa romana".
- Roman_villa sameAs Římská_villa.
- Roman_villa sameAs Römisches_Haus.
- Roman_villa sameAs Villa_romana.
- Roman_villa sameAs Villa_romaine.
- Roman_villa sameAs Villa_romana.
- Roman_villa sameAs Romeinse_villa.
- Roman_villa sameAs Vila_romana.
- Roman_villa sameAs m.09xy9.
- Roman_villa sameAs Q918230.
- Roman_villa sameAs Q918230.
- Roman_villa wasDerivedFrom Roman_villa?oldid=606072093.
- Roman_villa depiction Roman_Villa_Rustica_Model_.jpg.
- Roman_villa isPrimaryTopicOf Roman_villa.