Villa Augustea
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 17, 2022 07:45 AM
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History
The so-called “Villa of Augustus” at Somma Vesuviana was first discovered in the late nineteenth century. The villa has been shown to have survived the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius but was eventually destroyed by a volcanic event in 472.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/652231747
40.8757821722, 14.4239329321
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Villa Augustea (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Villa Augustea (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- “Villa of Augustus” at Somma Vesuviana (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Villa Augustea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/652231747> [accessed: 04 October 2024]
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