. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Bathing Chair. (Louvre.) ARCHITECTURE. 471 295. Palaces and Villas. — The residences of the wealthyRomans when built within the city walls were called man-sions or palaces, but when located in the country wereusually designated as villas. The Palatine was the aristo-cratic quarter of Rome, being occupied by the homes ofthe wealthy class. After the Great Fire, Nero erected here. Peristyle of a Pompeian House. (From a photograph.) his Golden House (par. 220), whose various buildings,courts, gardens, vineyards, fish ponds, an
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Bathing Chair. (Louvre.) ARCHITECTURE. 471 295. Palaces and Villas. — The residences of the wealthyRomans when built within the city walls were called man-sions or palaces, but when located in the country wereusually designated as villas. The Palatine was the aristo-cratic quarter of Rome, being occupied by the homes ofthe wealthy class. After the Great Fire, Nero erected here. Peristyle of a Pompeian House. (From a photograph.) his Golden House (par. 220), whose various buildings,courts, gardens, vineyards, fish ponds, and other innumer-able appendages spread over much of the burnt was the most stupendous dwelling-place ever built fora mortal man. The central building upon the Palatine,shorn of its extensive grounds and useless adjuncts, be-came the residence of most of the emperors who held the 472 ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, LAW. throne after the death of Nero. The palaces of the wealthy-citizens vied in costly magnificence with those of theCaesars. Never, perhaps, says the historian Inge, ex-cept in the palaces of the Incas, has gold been so freely
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