Lecture: "The Garden of Flora: New Discoveries at the Roman Seaside Villas of Stabiae near Pompeii" by Thomas Howe

• Event Date: Sunday, February 9, 2014
• Time: 3:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The speaker is an art and architectural historian who is also a field archaeologist. Stabiae is near Pompeii and was buried by the same Vesuvian eruption of AD 79. Pliny the Elder died on the beach of one of the Stabiae villas during the eruption. The site today is the largest concentration of well-preserved panoramic villas in the entire Mediterranean area. The excavations in the Villa Arianna garden provide new evidence for the period of creativity in the early decades of the Roman Empire.

This event is organized by the Central Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and hosted by the Spurlock Museum.

Visit http://www.archaeological.org/societies/centralillinoisurbana (external link) for more information.