of the
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME,
UCLA,
and the
SOPRINTENDENZA ARCHEOLOGICA PER IL LAZIO
Salve! This site offers information about Horace's Villa and the excavations undertaken there from 1997 to 2001. Among the many features you will find are QuickTime panoramas of the site as well as Horace's villa poetry read in Latin by Prof. Matthew Dillon of Loyola Marymount University. There are also videos about Horace's villa and about another important villa, the Villa of the Papyri, which has been recreated at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California (currently closed to the public for restoration).
To take advantage of these features, you must have Apple's QuickTime 4 (or later), which is available for both Macintosh and Windows at Apple's QuickTime Site. You also need to use Netscape 4.03 (or later) or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (or later). The streaming videos will not be viewable unless you have a high-speed Internet connection (considerably faster than 56k).