Lucullus
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Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous military and government service, he conq
A summer repast at the house of Lucullus (painting by Gustave Boulanger, 1877)
Tusculum
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Tusculum was an ancient Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to t
Lucullus
…amazed his contemporaries by their magnitude. He also patronised the arts and sciences lavishly, transforming his hereditary estate in the highlands of Tusculum into a hotel-and-library complex for scholars and philosophers. He built the famous horti Lucullani (Palace and gardens of Lucullus) on the Pincian…
Archaeological park of Tusculum
Via Labicana (red) via Latina (blue) roads from Rome
Model of upper town (1904)
Roman theatre of Tusculum