Herculaneum, past, present & future . e villa were works ofsuperior art discovered. Many of the finest works were foundin the town itself. In the first century Herculaneum was a quiet, genteel,entirely Romanised little town, which owed its prosperity toits attractions as a health-resort for rich great folk weariedwith the smoke and the wealth and the clatter of ,^ as we said above, speaks of its reputation for healthi-ness ; and Plinys phrase frequens amoenitas orae ^ seems torefer chiefly to the neighbourhood of Herculaneum. Seneca *mentions that Agrippina the elder had a most
Herculaneum, past, present & future . e villa were works ofsuperior art discovered. Many of the finest works were foundin the town itself. In the first century Herculaneum was a quiet, genteel,entirely Romanised little town, which owed its prosperity toits attractions as a health-resort for rich great folk weariedwith the smoke and the wealth and the clatter of ,^ as we said above, speaks of its reputation for healthi-ness ; and Plinys phrase frequens amoenitas orae ^ seems torefer chiefly to the neighbourhood of Herculaneum. Seneca *mentions that Agrippina the elder had a most beautiful villahere, which her son, the mad Emperor Caligula, afterwardsdestroyed, because she was once confined in it, probably in thecourse of those quarrels with Tiberius which led to her exileand death. The incident gives Seneca a text for much edifying 1 Huschke, Die Oskischen und Sabellischen Sprachdenkmixler, 1856. - Strabo, p. 246. Cf. Part 1. Chapter I. ^ Plin. Epiit. vi. 16, 9. * Seneca, Dial. v. {De Ira, iii.) Il IX. »
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