House of Menander
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 09, 2020 08:07 PM
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History
tags:
domus,
extant remains
A large Pompeian townhouse belonging to one Q. Poppaeus Sabinus at the time of its destruction (I, 10, 4, 14-16).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/690549463
40.7497382, 14.4898822
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Casa del Menandro" (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Casa del Menandro (Italian, modern)
- Casa del poeta Menandro (Italian, modern)
- Casa del tesoro delle argenterie (Italian, modern)
- Casa delle argenterie (Italian, modern)
- Domus of Q. Poppaeus Sabinus and Vatinia Primigenia (English, modern)
- I.10.4 (English, modern)
- House of Menander connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- House of Menander part of (analytical) Regio I, Pompeii (modern)
- Casa del Fabbro abuts House of Menander (unspecified date range)
townhouse
Pleiades
Based on a seal from room 43, along with graffito evidence, the owner of the house has been identified by some scholars as one Q. Poppaeus Sabinus (Della Corte 1953: nos. 592-3).
Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'House of Menander: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/690549463> [accessed: 03 October 2023]
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