Rediscover lost imperial villas in Rome

Did you know that Rome had a green belt? In the late Republican period, the hills of Rome had lush and luxurious garden estates called "horti". In the Imperial period, most of the residences became imperial property and were individually refined and rebuilt by various imperial family members. We;ll take a look at what the remains today in the (sometimes stunning) archaeological sites, as well as the artefacts in some of Rome's greatest museums!
This video was made possible through a grant from the CAAS Masciantonio Award!
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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Horti of Lucullus
1:27 Horti of Caesar (and Sallust)
3:16 Horti of Lamia
4:40 Horti of Maecenas
5:43 Horti of Pallas and Epaphroditus
6:30 Sessorium
7:30 Other Horti of Transtiberim
8:19 Horti of the Campus Martius area

[@mikki3961]

Thank you! My only complaint is the videos are always too short. Fascinating and well presented. Grazie.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Haha love to do more - as we get more funding …

[@petrismaximus]

Thank you for broadening my mind. Just shows how much is easy to miss. Really enjoyed the content 👍

[@AncientRomeLive]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@saintjacques8137]

Thank you for your video. Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Roman history and in a series about the history of the Urbs through the centuries I recommend Schwerpunkt's content. It would be amazing if there could be a coop, we honestly need more Roman history on KZbin and you guys are making an amazing job. Keep it up!

[@AncientRomeLive]

Thank you. Will check it out!

[@FitzRabbits]

Great video Darius. Thank you for covering a part of Ancient Rome that so often gets overlooked.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Our pleasure!

[@nena-clara6270]

Great video, thank you! 🌳🌳🌳❤

[@AncientRomeLive]

So nice of you

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

Amazing horti-culture.

[@AncientRomeLive]

It really is!

[@RizzstrainingOrder66]

awesome video, thanks

[@AncientRomeLive]

Glad you liked it!

[@DeanMartin-mx2gi]

Maecenas was a wealthy individual, but he must have been filthy rich to have made a garden estate like this and be a patron of poets.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Absolutely

[@jefflanam]

I stayed at the Hotel Medici in the area of the Horti Sallustiani. They have a Roman column in their courtyard.

[@RP-mm9ie]

Grazie.

[@marthaarya167]

Lovely1

[@TWOCOWS1]

Amazing. I had no idea Doc, that such a luxury was used in decorating villas. Semi-precious stones?? I thought only the Mughals in India did that for places like the Taj Mahal. Wow. Thank you again for educating us

[@AncientRomeLive]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TheZestyTea]

Tibi gratias ago! Quid ludicrum magnum!

[@spencerignatescue158]

Darius puts a lot of work into these videos and only gets like 12 comments and 3k views. But I dont think its because of the content but how modern zoomers consume information. The people who do consume Darius' content seem to generally older people in their throws and people in their 20-30's that already know too much about each topic and have come to criticize. And a very small ammount of people genuinely are interested in the subject by choice early on, and are learning, and have an appreciation for the ammount of work and more importantly the passion put into the work of the author , like my self.

[@AncientRomeLive]

Thank you. We need to do a better job with titles and thumbnails!

[@kubacks]

Darius, what is the work depicted at 5:18 in the video? I'd like to follow up on the work and learn more about it. Thank you!!

[@AncientRomeLive]

Hanging Marsyas- in Capitoline Museums

[@kubacks]

Thank you. It's quite a compelling piece.

[@danhworth100]

Trend. If your family has something nice, the emperor is going to take it 😅

[@amgymrat4546]

Dumb question why were people shorter back then? Was it because of nutrition?

[@MrSomethingElse]

Green Belts???? those crazy old dudes.... Imagine the pride and Insolence.... public green spaces... pft, Tiberius should have visited brooklyn or Compton... Green spaces? how dare they treat people so well?

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I think you should specify “80s BCE”, maybe not everyone is as familiar with Roman history as you and many of us are. Forty years ago, I would have had no idea when the Republican Period was. Then, I read Colleen McCullough’s wonderful Masters of Rome series, and have been obsessed with Roman history ever since. (Unfortunately, the Audible series is abridged, I absolutely hate that! Yes, it’s a long series, all the better, I don’t want anything cut out).

[@AncientRomeLive]

thank you