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The Seaside Villas of Stabiae

By Thomas Noble Howe

Lying in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, or at least in the shadow of the eruption cloud of 79 A.D., only three miles south of Pompeii, is a little-known but spectacular archaeological site: the sea-edge villas of Stabiae. Stabiae is home to a group of enormous villae marittimae, which are set on a cliff above the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia. We know 018of at least six of these villas, built directly next to one another—a sort of Roman high-rent resort district next to the small town of Stabiae. They were beautifully preserved by the eruption of […]

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Endnotes

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Natural History 3.9.70.

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Strabo, Geography 5.4.8.

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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Ingrid Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 6.5.5.

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This survey was conducted by Meg Watters of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, with Enzo Sabini of the Superintendancy of Pompeii.