House of the Dioscuri
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Creators: Athanasia Varveri
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Valeria Vitale
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 22, 2024 07:00 PM
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History
A large and well-appointed house that takes its name from frescoes of Castor and Pollux (VI, 9, 6).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/364001862
40.7517671, 14.4836964
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Casa dei Dioscuri" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa dei Dioscuri (Italian, modern)
- Casa del Questore (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Castore e Polluce (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Gneo Centronio Fortunato (Italian, modern)
- Collegium mercatorum (Latin, modern)
- Domus of M. Nigidius Vaccula (English, modern)
- VI.9.6 (English, modern)
- House of the Dioscuri located at Pompeii (30 BC - AD 300)
- House of the Dioscuri part of (analytical) Regio VI, Pompeii (modern)
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townhouse
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The house was excavated in 1828 and 1829 and is notable for its Fourth style wall paintings and its Corinthian atrium.
Athanasia Varveri, Jeffrey Becker, and Valeria Vitale, 'House of the Dioscuri: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/364001862> [accessed: 20 November 2024]
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