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Identifier: lifeinromanworld00tuck (find matches)
Title: Life in the Roman world of Nero and St. Paul
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George), 1859-1946
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 42. — House of the Vettii at Pompeii. A second storey extended over the corners and front partsincluded under the nine small crosses. from mythology and semi-history, floating figures,genre pictures, and pictures of still life; or uponthe mosaics in floor and wall depicting similarsubjects and often serving to the occupants not somuch in the place of pictorial art as in the place ofwall-papers and of Brussels or Kidderminster car-pets. We might speak of the profuse collectionsof statuary, of the gilding on ceiling and cornices,of the colours shed by the rich curtains and awnings i66 LIFE IN THE ROMAN WORLD of purple and crimson, of the grateful sound of waterplashing in the fountains and basins or babbling
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over a series of steps like a broken cascade inminiature. But perhaps too much of such descriptionmight only encourage still further the erroneous IX THE ROMAN TOWN HOUSE 167 notion that the Roman houses were all of thisnature, and that even the average Roman lived inthe midst of an abundance of such domestic luxuryand art. It requires but a little sober thought torealise that such homes were, as they have alwaysbeen, the exception. It would be as reasonable tojudge of an average London house by the mostopulent specimens in Park Lane, or of an Americanhouse by the richest at Newport, as to judge ofthe abodes of Romans in the time of Nero by theexamples which appeal so strongly to the novelistor the romancing historian. Suffice it that besidethe modest and frugal homes, the tenement flat, andthe hovel, there were houses distinguished by immenseluxury; and, since Romans have at all times soughtthe ostentatious and grandiose, perhaps such dwell-ings were larger and more pretentious in pr

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