BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news1515@daw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260310T105430 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260519T181500 SUMMARY:Late Roman Villas in the Province of Sicily: Some Recent Results DESCRIPTION:The country villas of the late Roman aristocracy give us a uniq ue insight into the lifestyles of the super-rich and\, by their choice of interior décor\, into their individual tastes and preferences. Sicily pos sesses some outstanding examples of this phenomenon\, in particular the gr eat villa of Casale near Piazza Armerina which\, 70 years after the main e xcavations\, is still unmatched anywhere in the Roman Empire for the sheer number of its figured and geometric mosaic floors. Less well known are th e villa at Caddeddi on the Tellaro river\, not far from Syracuse\, and tha t at Patti Marina on the north coast. This talk will not attempt to cover all aspects of these spectacular sites\, some of which will already be wel l known to those who have visited Sicily\, but will focus on recent work w hich has broadened our knowledge\, especially of the first two. It will al so present the speaker’s own recent excavations at a fourth site\, Gerac e\, near Enna in central Sicily\, which\, while not at the same level of l uxury as the other three\, has nevertheless yielded fresh information abou t a further late Roman Sicilian estate\, and even the name of its owners. The talk will also consider the end of high-status rural life at these vil las (and\, briefly\, what followed it)\, and will also discuss the likely significance of an old find\, long neglected\, which might possibly sugges t that luxury living in rural Sicily may\, just occasionally\, have contin ued a little later than is currently thought.\\r\\nIm Anschluss an den Vor trag findet ein kleiner Apéro statt. X-ALT-DESC:

The country villas of the late Roman aristocracy give us a un ique insight into the lifestyles of the super-rich and\, by their choice o f interior décor\, into their individual tastes and preferences. Sicily p ossesses some outstanding examples of this phenomenon\, in particular the great villa of Casale near Piazza Armerina which\, 70 years after the main excavations\, is still unmatched anywhere in the Roman Empire for the she er number of its figured and geometric mosaic floors. Less well known are the villa at Caddeddi on the Tellaro river\, not far from Syracuse\, and t hat at Patti Marina on the north coast. This talk will not attempt to cove r all aspects of these spectacular sites\, some of which will already be w ell known to those who have visited Sicily\, but will focus on recent work which has broadened our knowledge\, especially of the first two. It will also present the speaker’s own recent excavations at a fourth site\, Ger ace\, near Enna in central Sicily\, which\, while not at the same level of luxury as the other three\, has nevertheless yielded fresh information ab out a further late Roman Sicilian estate\, and even the name of its owners . The talk will also consider the end of high-status rural life at these v illas (and\, briefly\, what followed it)\, and will also discuss the likel y significance of an old find\, long neglected\, which might possibly sugg est that luxury living in rural Sicily may\, just occasionally\, have cont inued a little later than is currently thought.

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Im Anschluss an de n Vortrag findet ein kleiner Apéro statt.

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