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  • The spectacle of production: a Roman imperial winery at the Villa of the Quintilii, Rome

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  • Emlyn Dodd, Giuliana Galli, Riccardo Frontoni
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    Antiquity / Volume 97 / Issue 392 / April 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 April 2023, pp. 436-453
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    April 2023
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  • The elites of many past cultures have sought to romanticise agricultural labour—often the source of their wealth and hence their status. A recently discovered winery at the Villa of the Quintilii on the Via Appia Antica, near Rome, provides only the second known example from the Graeco-Roman world of an opulent wine production complex built to facilitate vinicultural ‘spectacle’. The authors present the architectural and decorative form of the winery and illustrate how the annual vintage was reimagined as ‘theatrical’ performance. Dating to the mid third century AD, the complex illuminates how ancient elites could fuse utilitarian function with ostentatious luxury to fashion their social and political status.