The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii

The Villa of the Mysteries is a Roman house, situated a little far from the city and from the archaeological site. It hasn’t been possible to understand who was the owner of the house, but some findings make the archaeologists think that it was a patrician house. Someone thinks that the house owner was Livia, wife of the emperor Augustus, because a statue representing her was found among the ruins. The name “Villa of the Mysteries” comes from a series of frescoes discovered in a room of the house and of which the meaning is still unknown. It’s clear that the representation present a young woman initiated into a worship. The debate is on which worship she’s going to begin: the biggest part of archaeologist think that is Dionysus worship, other thinks that is just the description of a woman while she is preparing for her wedding. Whatever are the worship celebrated in the Villa of the Mysteries this images make the visitor feels very awe. The villa has a lot of rooms, every one was furnished with elegance and some of the frescoes on their wall represented dinners and events. This is one of the villas where were found the bodies of people that were run over by the eruption of the Vesuvius.