Villa of Diomedes

Architecture and Site The villa sits just outside the city walls on the north side of Pompeii.

The west side of the villa borders the road leading to the Herculaneum Gate.

The villa was decorated with plain wall paintings of the Fourth Style, which are poorly preserved.

In the basement were eighteen other skeletons of women, servants and children, who were likely suffocated there by invading gases.

Théophile Gautier's Arria Marcella (1852) and Ferdinand Gregorovius' poem "Euphorion" were set here.