With the abandonment of the cities in the Late Roman period, the rural villa became a self-sufficient centre of production and consumption thanks to a wide variety of economic activities. Its owner, the dominus, exercised economic, social, military and religious power over the people who lived there and reflected his ideology and intellectual activity in the decorative motifs of the various rooms, as can be seen in this mosaic, which probably belonged to a dominus involved in the arts.
Collection: Texts
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: -
Scope: Secondary Education
Link: http://www.man.es/man/dam/jcr:bbb6c68a-8656-4cd7-84a5-3ed134a11cec/man-piezames-2016-05-mosaico.pdf
Resource type: pdf
Format: Texts
Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: With the abandonment of the cities in the Late Roman period, the rural villa became a self-sufficient centre of production and consumption thanks to a wide variety of economic activities. Its owner, the dominus, exercised economic, social, military and religious power over the people who lived there and reflected his ideology and intellectual activity in the decorative motifs of the various rooms, as can be seen in this mosaic, which probably belonged to a dominus involved in the arts.
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