Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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was the Poikile, adjoining which lie a basilica and around building, most likely the Prytaneum mentioned by Spar-tianus. Even the valley of Tempe had been imitated, whileHades is recognised by some in a still-preserved labyrinth ofsubterraneous chambers. The architecture was technically per-fect, as is shown by the remaining brick walls and vaults : some VILLA OF DIOMEDES AT POMPEII. 373 of the ruins seem to prove that the walls were adorned with slabsof marble, and that the vaulted ceilings were coated with stucco.Numerous fragments of columns, beams, valuable pavements, andsculptures have been (during the last three centuries) and are stillbeing recovered from the ruins. To illustrate the simpler villas of the higher middle class wehave inserted the plan of the so-called villa suburbana of M. ArriusDiomedes at Pompeii (Fig. 393 ; scale, 100 feet). It lies near thecity in the street of graves, which passes the building in anoblique direction. The ground in this place slopes downwards
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Fig. 393. from the street; and as the house has to follow this declivity,the front parts (marked in our plan by black lines) lie higherthan the back ones (marked by hatched lines), rising above themin the form of terraces. Near the entrance the pavement of thestreet is raised, and from it seven further steps ascend to the door(1) through which one enters the peristylium (2), quite inaccordance with Vitruviuss (VI., 8) rules for such villas, called byhim pseudourbance; in the position of the peristylium they there-fore differ essentially from town-houses. Fourteen Doric columns(the lower third of which is not fluted, but painted red, while thetwo upper thirds are white and fluted) form the peristylium, and 374 VILLA OF DIOMEDES AT POMPEII. surround a compluvium, the water of which communicated withtwo fountains (puteal) between the columns. On the side oppositethe door of the peristylium lies the tablinum (3), the other sidesbeing adjoined by smaller chambers, some of which were bed-ro

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