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An excited hunting trip

Wandering along the edges of the corridor of the “great hunt” is like taking a journey through the senses. The dynamism of the scenes represented also seems to evoke their sound dimension. Don't you feel like you can hear the clanging of the laurel-crowned military hunter's shields as they stand...
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Voices and melodies between courses

An overlapping of voices fills the atmosphere of this vast room. The importance of the mythological depictions in the floor mosaics, imbued with celebratory meanings, is dissipated by the banter of the guests who, between courses, focus on ephemeral speeches, war stories and satirical topics. Fro...
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Dialogues before the hearing

A small group of people whisper and wait their turn just before the steps leading up to the basilica: the dominus has just entered, with his retinue, heading towards the apse containing his seat. A man hurriedly unrolls the last documents, before entering the interior of the large hall. The sound of...
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Sound of the hunt

The first scene is portrayed in such detail that it feels like you can hear the hounds pacing over the sloping woodland and the hunters' footsteps making their way through the agave-like bushes. In the near distance you can hear the screeching of a hawk resting on the shoulder of a bird catcher, wai...
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a relaxing silence

Upon entering this place, the way in which sounds were perceived was very different from that in other parts of the baths. Imagine ... the persistent chatter and laughter that filled the large space of the frigidarium fell away to a state of complete relaxation, interrupted only by the slow rubbing ...
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Dialogues between the waters

Looking into this environment, so rich in history and experience, is so evocative that it seems impossible not to hear the echoes of those who frequented it at the beginning of the 4th century AD.  The voices of the high-ranking personalities housed in the niches of the changing rooms, which still ...
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An agitated race

The cries of the crowd urging the start of the competition became increasingly deafening, and to think that a few hours earlier, a supernatural silence reigned over the Circus Maximus. The horses huff inside the carceres, nervously scraping their hooves on the ground until the magistrate organising ...
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Whispers and soft tones

The space was used as a waiting room or a changing room for the family of the dominus. It was only to be filled with the voices of the domina and the thermal procession following her, mingled with the sound of glass or alabaster ampoules filled with perfumes and essences. However, the intimate atmos...
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rumour mill

Can you hear the conversations between the people who, at the beginning of the 4th century AD, went to the various rooms of the Peristyle? Listen ... the guards with their large, circular, colourful shields, represented in the official route, seem to come to life and pervade the entire room with a d...
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The echo of the ritual

Because of its location close to the Vestibule, in the public path through the Peristyle, the small apsidal chamber was immersed in the echo of the voices of those walking inside the long colonnaded portico during the day. Only during the ceremony held in the presence of the dominus, when the late a...
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