Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The villa within its landscape setting and the role of topography in the owner’s self-representation
Landscape setting
Ancillary buildings
Circular shrine and temple-mausoleum
Granary
Comparable villas
A further case study: Chedworth
Chapter Three: The choice and use of mosaics in the fourth century villa: how the patron presented his cultural identity and status through pavements
Grand designs
The central room
The seasons
Bellerophon
The apse
Europa and the bull
The inscription
An incongruous combination?
Classical literature in other Romano-British villas
Chapter Four: Additional reconstructions of the villa
The villa within its landscape setting
The villa’s interior space and decoration
Summary of reconstructions
Chapter Five: Conclusion
Bibliography
Online sources
About the Author
Caroline K. Mackenzie read Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After Cambridge, she continued her studies at law school where she was awarded a distinction and then practised as a Private Client solicitor in London for over a decade. Caroline subsequently pursued a teaching career, first as a law lecturer and then as Head of Classics at a preparatory school in Sevenoaks, Kent. In 2018 Caroline was awarded a Master of Arts with distinction in Classical Art and Archaeology at King’s College London.
Caroline teaches and leads a variety of courses on Latin and Greek, and on Classical Art and Archaeology; she has lectured for English Heritage who invited her to deliver a study day including a private tour of Lullingstone Roman Villa.