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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baia (Bacoli). Baiae (Italian: Baia; Neapolitan: Baia) was an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore...
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    had already recovered. The illness proved fatal and killed Marcellus at Baiae, in Campania, Italy. He would be the first member of the imperial family...
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    an alternative cave site as the home of the Sibyl. A tunnel complex near Baiae (part of the volcanically active Phlegraean fields) leads to an underground...
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    39, and connects it to the cost of Caligula's bridge-building project at Baiae. Suetonius has presumably the same financial crisis starting in 38; he does...
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  • the year in villas outside of the city of Rome or in resort towns such as Baiae. During the same summertime months, non-Romans would travel to Rome to see...
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    concrete in coastal underwater structures, probably in the harbours around Baiae before the end of the 2nd century BC. The harbour of Caesarea is an example...
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    using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighbouring port of Puteoli. It was said that the bridge was to...
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  • poetry, played an expert game of Latrunculi, and owned the villa Pisoni at Baiae. Piso was tall, good-looking, affable, and an excellent orator and advocate...
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    over two miles (3.2 km) from the town to the famous neighboring resort of Baiae, across which he proceeded to ride his horse, in defiance of an astrologer's...
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    The Roman Sinus Baianus was located within it, near the resort town of Baiae. Along with the island of Ischia and gulfs of Naples and Gaeta, local waters...
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    Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his own heirs. Hadrian died the same year at Baiae, and Antoninus had him deified, despite opposition from the Senate. Later...
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    leisure to their summer homes and villas in cities such as Pompeii and Baiae. While early travel tended to be slower, more dangerous, and more dominated...
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    causes produces astonishing results. It is found in the neighborhood of Baiae and in the country belonging to the towns round about Mount Vesuvius. This...
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    pp. 4, 6–13. Culham 2004, p. 155. See also Beard 1980 and Parker 2004. "Baiae, historic site, Italy". Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed 6 June 2021. Orlin...
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    carrying the thyrsus painted in the 1st century AD. Archaeological park of Baiae. Bacchus Triumphant by John Reinhard Weguelin (1882) A Bacchant holding...
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  • accelerates plans with Antigone to poison him whilst he is taking a sojourn in Baiae using Deadly Nightshade. Crassus and Corvinus continue to cultivate their...
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    over his time as governor of Judaea. Spending his time at the baths of Baiae, Pilate is unable to remember Jesus at all. John Masefield's play in verse...
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    maintenance fees. A reported 16% of the residences became vacation rentals. Baiae, Italy, a famous historic resort of the ancient world that was popular over...
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    said there was initial activity to the southwest in the zone of Bacoli and Baiae (10,000–8,000 years ago); intermediate activity in an area centred between...
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    In Roman times it was a popular resort almost as famous as the nearby Baiae. Many luxurious villas were built on the coast there and the headland. Symmachus...
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    Syria, is in the Damascus Museum, and a full-size copy has been found in Baiae: Martin Robertson (1957). "Europa". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld...
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    letter asking to reconcile and inviting her to celebrate the Quinquatrus at Baiae with him. He arranged an "accidental" collision between her galley and one...
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    Imperial period, such as the so-called "Temple of Mercury" bath hall at Baiae. Nero introduced the dome into Roman palace architecture in the 1st century...
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    golden quadriga. Hadrian's ashes were placed here a year after his death in Baiae in 138, together with those of his wife Sabina, and his first adopted son...
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    series of suicide attempts, all thwarted by Antoninus, Hadrian left for Baiae, a seaside resort on the Campanian coast. His condition did not improve...
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    dead link] Smith 1983, pp. 116–119. Smith 1983, pp. 121–123. Miller 1972. "Baiae, historic site, Italy". Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed 6 June 2021. Hodge...
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  • (Greek: Βαῖος, Baîos), Odysseus's helmsman in Homer's Odyssey, namesake of Baiae This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Baius...
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    hypocausts. Pilae were also used in concrete piers in the Gulf of Pozzuoli at Baiae, Misenum, and Nisida. These are illustrated in a 1st-century fresco from...
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    later ages. Seneca was undoubtedly extremely rich: he had properties at Baiae and Nomentum, an Alban villa, and Egyptian estates. Cassius Dio even reports...
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    tourists during the Republic would visit spas and coastal resorts such as Baiae. They were popular among the rich. The Roman upper class used to spend their...
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