page_title: Casa del Menandro
section_title: Classical style and Hellenism
hierarchical_section_title: Casa del Menandro / Art, architecture, and graffiti / Classical style and Hellenism
caption_attribution_description: On the south side of the atrium facing the entrance is the tablinum. The tablinum is open to the atrium over its full width and likewise to the peristyle to the south. It is decorated in the fourth style in a similar manner to the atrium, but the colours are reversed, with yellow panels with internal ornamental borders framed in red separated by white architectural openings above a black frieze decorated with ornamental bands, plants, and medallions.
context_page_description: The House of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents, and covers a large area of about 1,800 square metres. Its quality means the owner must have been an aristocrat involved in politics, with great taste for art. Mussolini held a lunch party in Room 18 when he visited Pompeii in 1940.
  The house was excavated between November 1926 and June 1932 and is located in Region I, Insula 10, Entrance 4 of the city.
context_section_description: The large columns in the peristyle of the Casa del Menandro are representative of the Doric style of architecture, an offshoot of the Classical Style, which also stems from Greece.  The emphasis on Greek culture in Pompeian architecture is not surprising since Greek sailors had been using the port as a trading post before the Oscans founded the city in the 6th century BC.
caption: The columns in the peristyle viewed through the tablinum of the house
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