• PugJesusOP
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    10 months ago

    Most of the urban poor and working class would have lived in Insulae, apartment buildings. Having a proper house in the city was much more the domain of the middle and upper classes. Despite the label of the image, the term ‘villa’ is generally reserved for the (often secondary and luxurious) rural residences of the elite, while ‘domus’ usually is used to refer to smaller houses in the cities.

  • froggers
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    310 months ago

    I always loved these buildings. Don’t know why but they are just so cool to me.

    • PugJesusOP
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      510 months ago

      Same. I love courtyards. Screw whoever decided they weren’t an essential part of a house.

  • @AnUnusualRelic
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    310 months ago

    There’s cutaways of numerous villas in Pompeii.