House of the Tragic Poet
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Valeria Vitale Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 10, 2026 03:13 PM
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History
The so-called "House of the Tragic Poet" (VI, 8, 3, 5) was built in the first century BC and has the plan of a classic "Samnite" house. The house was excavated in 1824. It lies at the corner of the Via delle Terme and the Via della Fullonica, across from the Forum Baths.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912505596
40.7507504885, 14.4838058691
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Casa del Poeta Tragico" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa col Cave canem (Italian, modern)
- Casa del Poeta Tragico (Italian, modern)
- Casa del concerto drammatico (Italian, modern)
- Casa del poeta (Italian, modern)
- Casa del poeta drammatico (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Glauco (Italian, modern)
- Casa di Omero (Italian, modern)
- Casa omerica (Italian, modern)
- Domus of Aninius (English, modern)
- Domus of M. P. Cepius (English, modern)
- Haus der Iphigenia (German, modern)
- House of the Tragic Poet (English, modern)
- VI.8.3 (English, modern)
- House of the Tragic Poet connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- House of the Tragic Poet part of (analytical) Regio VI, Pompeii (modern)
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Pleiades
Valeria Vitale, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Athanasia Varveri, and Tom Elliott, 'House of the Tragic Poet: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912505596> [accessed: 07 October 2026]
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