Prologue The modern dream for the Getty Villa caught fire in Herculaneum or Herakleion, a small Greek polis on the outskirts of Neapolis (Naples) and on the lower slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Herculaneum was part of Magna Graecia (Greater Greece), for several centuries of political and cultural Greece in Italy. Magna Graecia was Southern Italy, More

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