Excavations of Villa of Lucullus, Naples, 2006Villa of Lucullus on Monte Echia, NaplesHall of columns, Castel dell'Ovo
The villa of Lucullus was an extensive and sumptuous ancient Roman villa built in the first century BC in Naples by the famous gourmet, general and consul.[1] It was one of his several known villas in addition to the Gardens of Lucullus in Rome, one in Tusculum in the Alban Hills, one on the island of Nisida and another at Misenum also in the Bay of Naples.
The villa was equipped with piers that stretched out into the sea, a very rich library, fish ponds and moray eel farms[2] and lavish gardens[3] with peach trees imported from Persia which for the time were a novelty along with the cherry trees he brought in from Cerasus.[4]
It was here that it was said that Lucullus had a "mountain" pierced at a greater outlay than he had spent on his villa, in order to make a channel to connect the sea to his fish ponds; for this reason Pompey the Great called him "Xerxes in a toga".[5][6]
The villa was so famous for its banquets that even today the adjective Lucullan indicates a particularly abundant and delicious meal.
On the death of Lucullus (57/56 BC) the villa passed to the Roman emperor. Under Valentinian III (419-455) it was transformed into a fortress, since then called the castellum Lucullanum, and was the place of exile of Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor.[7]
^Amante, Alessia, La villa di Licinio Lucullo a Napoli: un’opera d’arte romana (La COOltura). Antica Roma (2017) https://www.lacooltura.com/2017/12/villa-di-licinio-lucullo-arte-romana/
^Pliny, IX.171
^Plutarch, 'Lucullus' ch. 37
^Jerome: epistle XXXI ad Eustochium
^Pliny IX 80 170
^Velleius Paterculus, Roman History Book II: 33
^Nathan, Geoffrey S. (1997). «Romulus Augustulus (475–476 A.D.) – Two Views». De Imperatoribus Romanis.
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