So, I wonder what they say?
- “Keeping It In The Family” by Julia and Gius “Little Boots” Caesar?
- Claudius’s history?
- “Cooking With Mushrooms” by Agrippina Junior?
- “Lyrics from the Nerona”?
- “Tactics” by M. S. Otho?
- “Appealing To The Crowd” by Aulus Vitellius
We can only wonder.
It Takes a Village to Raze an Army .... a German acount of the welcome wagon that took care of Varus and his three legions?
The handful of works known so far appear to be Epicurian texts.
Philodemus: The Villa of the Papyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodemus#The_Villa_of_the_Papyri
The Villa of the Papyri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri
[snip] Piso’s home had four levels disposed in a series of terraces on the sloping site and was one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and Pompeii... There is still 2,800 [square meters] left to be excavated of this villa suburbana, the most luxurious in the resort of Herculaneum. Beneath the excavated area, new excavations in the 1990s revealed two previously undiscovered floors to the villa [end]
The search for the lost library of Rome
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article505322.ece
[snip] Once the villa had been stripped, 200 years ago, the tunnels were sealed. But last week a group of the world’s leading classical scholars gathered in Oxford to demand that the site be reopened. They believe that there is a better-than-evens chance — “quite likely”, is how Robert Fowler, professor of Greek at Bristol University, puts it — that the villa may have possessed at least one other library still to be uncovered. [end]
AND HERE’S A LAUGH, and maybe a good long cry:
Piso Theory by “Roman Piso”
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_piso07.htm