The Roman Emperor Tiberius: The Grotto of Sperlonga
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It was September 4, 476 – the Germanic warrior Odoacer forced the Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to abdicate, and this day is therefore considered the date of the fall of the Roman Empire. By then, not much was left of the once powerful empire. At the beginning of the 2nd century, under the reign of Emperor Trajan, it stretched from Scotland in the west to...
The Roman Emperor Tiberius: The Grotto of Sperlonga
The Grotto of Sperlonga (the Spelunca), located midway between Rome and Naples, is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in Italy. It served as a lavish, imperial banquet hall integrated directly into a natural sea cave, famously associated with the Emperor Tiberius. This site is a supreme example of Roman "landscape architecture," where the boundaries between the natural world and the opulent, engineered environment of the Roman elite…

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