Alice Poletto
DPhil - University of Oxford
Postgraduate School, MA, BA - Sapienza University of Rome
My doctoral research considered the architecture, functions, and usage patterns of imperial villas in Italy, with a focus on the period between Antoninus Pius and Maxentius (AD 138–312). Using data from ten residences, combined with textual and epigraphic evidence concerned with the period under consideration, I investigated the forms in which imperial villas provided a venue for the activities which emperors performed in fulfilment of their role.
My primary field of research is Roman Archaeology, with a focus on architecture and spatial analysis. I am also interested in the social and economic history of the Roman empire, ancient urbanism and trade patterns in the Mediterranean.
I have participated in more than fifteen excavation seasons, in Italy (Hadrian's Villa, Palatine Hill, Ostia, Pyrgi, Peltuinum, Castrum Novum), Kosovo (Ulpiana), Morocco (Volubilis), and Turkey (Elaiussa Sebaste).
Supervisors: Dr Janet DeLaine - Dr Dominik Maschek (DPhil), Prof Stefano Tortorella (MA, BA), Dr Alessandra Ten (MA, co-supervisor), and Dr Alessandra Gobbi (MA, co-supervisor)
Address: British School at Rome
via Antonio Gramsci 61
00197 Roma
Postgraduate School, MA, BA - Sapienza University of Rome
My doctoral research considered the architecture, functions, and usage patterns of imperial villas in Italy, with a focus on the period between Antoninus Pius and Maxentius (AD 138–312). Using data from ten residences, combined with textual and epigraphic evidence concerned with the period under consideration, I investigated the forms in which imperial villas provided a venue for the activities which emperors performed in fulfilment of their role.
My primary field of research is Roman Archaeology, with a focus on architecture and spatial analysis. I am also interested in the social and economic history of the Roman empire, ancient urbanism and trade patterns in the Mediterranean.
I have participated in more than fifteen excavation seasons, in Italy (Hadrian's Villa, Palatine Hill, Ostia, Pyrgi, Peltuinum, Castrum Novum), Kosovo (Ulpiana), Morocco (Volubilis), and Turkey (Elaiussa Sebaste).
Supervisors: Dr Janet DeLaine - Dr Dominik Maschek (DPhil), Prof Stefano Tortorella (MA, BA), Dr Alessandra Ten (MA, co-supervisor), and Dr Alessandra Gobbi (MA, co-supervisor)
Address: British School at Rome
via Antonio Gramsci 61
00197 Roma
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This paper aims at considering villa-behaviour in the late-republican period and in the first century of the imperial period, in order to offer some thoughts on transformation and continuity in villaculture before and after the establishing of the imperial ownership. My purpose is to try to find out whether, and to what extent, political upheaval had a consequence on patterns of social and cultural life.
Villas, namely suburban and extra-urban residences combining luxurious dwelling with productive functions, were a distinctive aspect of the Roman world. The architectural type of the villa is, hence, an expression of Roman society, and at the same time a cause and a consequence of villaculture. Late-republican and imperial villas are well-documented by archaeological remains and by a large variety of ancient texts: a selection of both kinds of evidence will be considered herein.
In the first instance, I will address privately-owned villas, and try to point out what trends changed and what, on the other hand, remained stable. Secondly, I will compare a number of features of late-republican and imperial villa-behaviour, in order to highlight similarities and differences between the two.
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This paper aims at considering villa-behaviour in the late-republican period and in the first century of the imperial period, in order to offer some thoughts on transformation and continuity in villaculture before and after the establishing of the imperial ownership. My purpose is to try to find out whether, and to what extent, political upheaval had a consequence on patterns of social and cultural life.
Villas, namely suburban and extra-urban residences combining luxurious dwelling with productive functions, were a distinctive aspect of the Roman world. The architectural type of the villa is, hence, an expression of Roman society, and at the same time a cause and a consequence of villaculture. Late-republican and imperial villas are well-documented by archaeological remains and by a large variety of ancient texts: a selection of both kinds of evidence will be considered herein.
In the first instance, I will address privately-owned villas, and try to point out what trends changed and what, on the other hand, remained stable. Secondly, I will compare a number of features of late-republican and imperial villa-behaviour, in order to highlight similarities and differences between the two.