Lupanar
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale
Creators: Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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The Lupanar (or Lupanare Grande) (VII, 12, 18–20) is located east of the forum at the intersection of Vico del Lupanare and Vico del Balcone Pensile. It is the largest of Pompeii's brothels.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/38626420
40.7502396, 14.4867565
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called "Lupanare Grande" (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Lupanar (Latin, modern)
- Lupanare Grande (Italian, modern)
- Lupanar connection Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- Lupanar part of (analytical) Regio VII, Pompeii (modern)
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taberna, shop
- See Further:
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- Clarke, J. R. 1991. The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 368.
- Dickey, J. 1961. "In the Lupanar at Pompeii." The Kenyon Review 23.4:631-3.
- Franklin, Jr., J. 1986. "Games and a Lupanar: Prosopography of a Neighborhood in Ancient Pompeii." The Classical Journal 81.4:319-328.
- Levin-Richardson 2019
- Mcginn, T. A. J. 2004. The economy of prostitution in the Roman world : a study of social history & the brothel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Wikipedia (English) Lupanar (Pompeii)
- pompeiisites.org: Lupanare (VII,12,18)
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Athanasia Varveri, Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Lupanar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/38626420> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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