When the sun went down in ancient Rome, the city transformed into a world of lavish banquets, crowded taverns, gambling, and dangerous alleyways. Follow the wealthy elite through a night of excess and ...

When summer arrives, celebrations of the solstice happen all over the world. In Italy, la dolce vita unfolds in Sperlonga, between Rome and Naples, in the middle of a coastal stretch called the ...

Nestled on the promontory of Posillipo Hill overlooking the Bay of Naples is Villa Pausilypon, a testament to a real Roman holiday. Much of the villa, near the ancient town of Baia, has been lost to ...

This small, bronze skeleton is one of only a dozen known examples of an ancient Roman "larva convivalis" — a "banquet ghost" figurine given out as a party favor 2,000 years ago. The skeleton ...

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