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	HOUSE - LoveToKnow Article on HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The remains of the houses found in the Peiraeus are of the same simple plan as those at Priene, and suggest,that the Greek house was considered to be the private residence only for the members of the family, and without any provision for entertaining guests as in Rome and Pompeii.
		The house of Livia on the Palatine Hill was in two storeys, and the decoration was of a much finer character than those of Pompeii; this house and the House of the Vestals might be taken as representative of the Roman house in Rome itself.
		Houses in stone from the 12th to the 16th century are found in Cologne, Metz, Trier, Hanover and Munster in Westphalia, where again there are whole streets remaining; and in brick at Rostock, Stralsund, LUbeck, Greifswald and Dantzig, forming a very remarkable series of 15th and 16th-century work.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOUSE.htm (2229 words)

	Vestals
		House of the Vestal Virgins, the temple of the undying flame.
		The neophyte was led to the House of the Vestals (Atrium Vestae) next to the Temple of Vesta and the proper ritual and ceremonies performed.
		The guilty Vestal is tied to a litter, covered and gagged, so that no one will hear her as she is taken through the Forum, from the Temple of Vesta to the chamber prepared for her.
	www.ancientroute.com /religion/Relig-Subj/vestals.htm (2348 words)

	The Avalon Project : Babylonian Law--The Code of Hammurabi.
		The vestals were vowed to chastity, lived together in a great nunnery, were forbidden to open or enter a tavern, and together with other votaries had many privileges.
		Houses were let usually for the year, but also for longer terms, rent being paid in advance, half-yearly.
		Vestal virgins were not supposed to have children, yet they could and often did marry.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/medieval/hammpre.htm (7486 words)

	Hammurabi
		If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the major domus, the master of the house shall be put to death.
		If fire break out in a house, and some one who comes to put it out cast his eye upon the property of the owner of the house, and take the property of the master of the house, he shall be thrown into that self-same fire.
		If a man is taken prisoner in war, and there is a sustenance in his house, but his wife leave house and court, and go to another house: because this wife did not keep her court, and went to another house, she shall be judicially condemned and thrown into the water.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/hamcode.html (15918 words)

	British Academy: Lectures, seminars, conferences and symposia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Inequality was rife here: in the House of the Vestals lived some of the wealthiest people in the city, while in the small workshops, bars and upstairs rental apartments lived some of Pompeii’s most disadvantaged.
		Using evidence from the House of the Vestals, the paper will illustrate processes behind the development of an urban elite and show how the rich lived in space and luxury while the independent poor were marginalized.
		The drive to enlarge the House of the Vestals was not only concerned with obtaining sufficient land upon which to create a lavish house, but was also designed to secure valuable economic space.
	www.britac.ac.uk /events/2004/pdfsymp/ab-robinson.html (362 words)

	House of the Vestal Virgins, Forum Romanum (Photo Archive) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Atrium of the House of the Vestals
		The House of the Vestal Virgins, (Atrium Vestae), was the residence of the Vestal Virgins, the high priestesses of the cult of Vesta.
		The cult of Vesta is very ancient, and the Vestal Virgins had their residence in the same location from the 6th century BCE to the end of the 4th century CE.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/173_House_of_the_Vestal_Virgins.html (1149 words)

	House of the Vestals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The statues pictured above all were found in a pile, and their original arrangement or even whether they have been placed on the correct pedestal is not known.
		During this time, the Vestals were to remain chaste, tend the eternal flame, safeguard the sacred objects within the Temple of Vesta, and prepare the grain mixed with salt for sacrifice.
		A Vestal who lost her virginity was thought to jeopardize Rome, itself, and a priestess who did not remain chaste was subject to terrible penalties.
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/romanforum/vestals.html (263 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rome
		Moreover, in the churches and chapels of many religious houses, particularly the generalates, as well as in the various national colleges, it is possible for foreigners to fulfil their religious obligations.
		It is believed that here was the house of the matron, Lucina, so often mentioned in the Acts of Roman martyrs; this house was transformed by Sixtus III into a basilica which was repeatedly restored.
		The house of Augustus, that of Tiberius, the hippodrome, the library, the house of Livia, the pœdagogium, or quarters of the imperial pages (where the celebrated drawing of a certain Alexamenos adoring a crucified ass was discovered) -- all these are still clearly distinguishable.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13164a.htm (14280 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Livia (Wife of Augustus)
		He lived in her house, and it was through her favor that he entered the senate.
		But it was within the family that Livia exercised her greatest influence, and it was for this reason that history assigned her the role of wicked stepmother, ambitious for her own sons at the expense of other members of the household.
		She was “a terrible mother for the state as a mother, a terrible stepmother for the house of the Caesars.
	www.roman-emperors.org /livia.htm (3426 words)

	Interactive Dig Pompeii: Ancient Tour
		The once-grand facades of the House of the Vestals and the House of the Surgeon continue to dominate VI,1.
		This is the House of the Vestals, one of the largest houses in Pompeii.
		In the dull, gray stone impluvium of this house, there is no fountain skittering delightfully.
	www.archaeology.org /interactive/pompeii/tour.html (512 words)

	Interactive Dig Pompeii: Introduction
		It contained the House of the Vestals, one of the largest and most luxurious properties in the ancient city, and the House of the Surgeon, normally regarded as one of the oldest buildings still standing when Vesuvius exploded.
		The changing nature of the properties, from small, modest houses to large, luxurious ones and industrial complexes to commercial establishments, reflect the growing gulf between rich and poor in ancient Pompeii.
		In the House of the Vestals we studied the elite members in society and their houses decorated with elaborate wall paintings and mosaics.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/interactive/pompeii/field/1.html (500 words)

	The Vestal Virgins of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Chosen by lot from a group of specially selected, physically impeccable girls with two living parents, a Vestal entered the Order between her sixth and tenth year and was sworn to thirty years of chastity and demending service.
		A chief Vestal duty was tending the sacred fire in the round, peaked-roofed Temple of Vesta.
		Vesta was once the goddess of the hearth and later became the goddess of the flame that symbolized the Roman state.
	www.angelfire.com /va2/vestalvirgins (358 words)

	House of Vestal Virgins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		House of the Vestal Virgins: Northeast from Pools
		The House of the Vestals Virgins was the residence for the priestesses who served at the Temple of Vesta.
		Girls between six and ten years of age, first from the patrician class and then the plebian, were recruited to serve at the Temple of Vesta.
	www.abu.nb.ca /courses/ntintro/images/HousVestals.htm (66 words)

	Casa delle Vestali K20a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was destined to conserve the sacred fire, a symbol of perpetuity of the State.
		The house of the vestals was built in Republican times, but was rebuilt after the Nero's fire of Rome in 64 A.D..
		But if she broke her vow of castity while being a priestess, she was immured alive and the man was publicly flogged to death.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/K20a.htm (162 words)

	Interactive Dig Pompeii: Field Notes: August 18, 2003
		The House of the Surgeon was brought to light when Spaniard Francesco La Vega cleared the central zone of our city block of ash and lapilli in the 1770s.
		His work in the central courtyard, or atrium, led him to believe the house was the oldest in the city to remain standing in A.D. 79, and he dated its construction to the fourth century B.C. This foundation date for the House of the Surgeon has been fundamental to the study of Italian domestic architecture.
		At some point in the history of the building, a service wing was attached to the house which included a kitchen (1 on plan), some storage space (6 on plan) and a toilet (3 on plan).
	www.archaeology.org /interactive/pompeii/field/11.html (869 words)

	The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The damage to the Consolare house was repaired, and the house was now extended, uniting into a single property what had been at least two separate houses.
		The house was provided with a modest bath near the small peristyle, cocciopesto floors with some mosaic detail, and an opus sectile panel in a dining room.
		The resulting house matched in the mid-first century BCE the pattern of provision that continued in many elite houses up to 79 CE.
	www.brad.ac.uk /acad/archsci/field_proj/anampomp/aapp_urban6.html (341 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: House of the Vestals: Investigations of Gordianus the Finder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		House of the Vestals: Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
		But each plot of "House of the Vestals" is so thin that it left me with a feeling of "is that all there is?".
		The House Of The Vestals is very enjoyable collage of ancient Roman mystery stories loosely based on either real history or ancient folklore.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312154445 (1129 words)

	Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Anglo-American Project in Pompeii centres on Insula 1 of Regio VI which is located just inside of the Herculaneum gateway and contains the House of the Surgeon, generally considered to be one of the oldest houses in the city.
		We are comitted to examining the entire city block from its earliest occupation through to its final form in 79 C.E., as well as documenting the history of the archaeological remains from their first excavation to the present day.
		The first phase of our project has concentrated upon the House of the Vestals, the largest and most impressive dwelling in the city block.
	acl.arts.usyd.edu.au /projects/externalprojects/pompeii1.html (236 words)

	Research
		I could conclude that the known pre-Roman settlement was concentrated to the areas near Narce and that there was a clear relationship between geographical background, different landforms and settlement.
		I wrote my dissertation in cultural history at the University of Turku on the position of the house of the Vestals in the building program of emperor Trajan.
		House of Vestals was a religious building comprising of a collegial residence of the virgins (atrium Vestae) and the temple of Vesta.
	www.arch.cam.ac.uk /~umr20/research.html (521 words)

	Warming House Records Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		3/3/04: The Vestals and Warming House Records are proud to announce the date of their CD Release party...
		After two name changes, and seemingly incessant CD re-mixing, re-mastering and re-sequencing I'm willing to bet my hat that the Vestals soon-to-be-released self-titled debut CD will turn out to be one of the best Minnesota original rock CD's of 2004.
		Featuring arrangements complete with strings, and impeccable musicianship, the Vestals mature and sometimes complex song-writing never descends into the territory of mere artfulness.
	www.warminghouserecords.com /press.html (352 words)

	Index: Stories, Listed by Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The House of the Vestals • Steven W. Saylor • (ss)
		The House of Usher Revisited • Stanley Cohen • (ss)
		The House that Was • Jacques Futrelle • (ss)
	users.ev1.net /~homeville/msf/l43.htm (1522 words)

	Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
		Compelled by this message, the wealthy, sybaritic Sextus Roscius goes not to his harlot but to his doom--savagely murdered by unknown assassins.
		In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate staking his reputation on this case.
		The charge is patricide; the motive, a son's greed.
	italian-mysteries.com /SS01.html (161 words)

	Ancient Roman History Timeline
		One of the Vestal's sacred duties was to keep alive the vesta "fire of Rome", for if it were to be extinguished, it would bring great evil to Rome and its people.
		Anyone who goes underneath a Vestal's litter when she is being carried is put to death.
		On more than one occasion, Vestals were found to be sexually active, and priests are known to have been responsible.
	www.exovedate.com /ancient_timeline_one.html (1848 words)

	Big Changes in Anciet Rome - Judith Geary
		Likewise, on the Palatine Hill, apparently temporary fences far the visitor from the House of Livia, the Huts of Romulus, and parts of the Farnese Gardens (including any spot where one could see down to the site of the House of the Vestals.
		Limited restoration of pavements temple podiums and columns distinguish the four visible temples and remains of the furthest extensions of the portico of Pompey's Theater.
		It seems that archaeologists working on the site are in conflict with the residents of a cat sanctuary and their protectors currently housed in the southernmost of the temple remains.
	romanhistorybooksandmore.freeservers.com /l_anctrome.htm (1610 words)

	Roman Forum
		Temple of Vesta - served by the Vestal Virgins
		Ceiling in Nero's Golden House showing hole in ceilingmade by explorers
		Map showing the extent of the Roman empire at the death of Agustus 14BC
	homepage.mac.com /wvestal/Italy_2004/PhotoAlbum57.html (117 words)

	Eikon: Object Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		These women were the daughters of Roman politicians, who were dedicated to keeping the fire going in the temple.
		They were given to this job at age 6 and were released from duty at age 30, although many remained for the rest of their lives.
		The punishment for losing their virginity was death by live burial.You may also look at the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum.
	research.yale.edu:8084 /divdl/eikon/objectdetail.jsp?objectid=4610 (102 words)

	BookkooB: The House of the Vestals - Steven Saylor
		BookkooB: The House of the Vestals - Steven Saylor
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for House of the Vestals by Steven Saylor.
		View other editions of The House of the Vestals.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/1841190594.htm (624 words)

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		House Of Love - Audience With The Mind GUY CHADWICK C86
		Enid Blyton : The Mystery of the Hidden House.
		Yes - House Of Yes - Live At The House Of Blues (DVD...
	search.ebay.co.uk /the-house-of_W0QQfmcZ1QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 (568 words)

	Learn Italian in Rome.Why learn Italian in Italy at Leonardo da Vinci's Italian language school
		Just some of the many must-sees include the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temple of Saturn, the House of the Vestals, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the Arch of Titus.
		The Conservatori and Nuovo now house the Museo Capitolino, just bursting with classic statues: Boy with Thorn ('in his side'), Dying Gaul and the Capitoline Venus.
		The Keats-Shelley Memorial House is nearby, and the piazza is graced by Bernini's boat-shaped Barcaccia fountain.
	www.abroadlanguages.com /al/italian/know/roma_attrac.asp (1362 words)

	Interactive Dig Pompeii: Field Notes: August 4, 2003
		We can also experience all that Pompeii has to offer, from the streets and fortification walls that frame our city block, to the private houses, shops, industries, religious precincts, and other public spaces.
		Jennifer Wehby (University of Georgia) has recently unearthed a threshold between the inn and the Casa del Triclinio, an outdoor dining area complete with a masonry couch, large water channel, and several niches for the worship of household gods.
		This important discovery shows these buildings were in some association in A.D. 79 and that the inn had at least a second story of rooms above it, perhaps to accommodate more guests or to house the family that managed the inn.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/interactive/pompeii/field/10.html (938 words)

	Powell's Books - Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries) by Steven W. Saylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		House of Vestals #1: The House of the Vestals: The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder by Steven Saylor
		Elena asks that you come to the House of Swans at once.
		Compelled by this message, the wealthy, sybaritic Sextus Roscius goes not to his harlot, but to his doom—savagely murdered by unknown assassins.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27576&cgi=product&isbn=0312972962 (376 words)

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