e m u r G HOMES WITH RUNNING WATER, JUST LIKE COMFORTABLE MODERN HOUSES Overlooking the main road axis and the forum was the “house of mosaics�, a large noble house divided into a service wing, located at the back, with its own secondary access, and a part reserved for the life of entertainment and hospitality of its owner, whose name appears stamped on the fistulae (the lead pipelines) that carried water to the house from the aqueduct. We know from a fragment preserved in the museum that the dominus of the villa was a member of the Stasii family, while the maker of the fistula was a certain Eperastus.
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LAGARIAN WINE, THE REMEDY FOR EVERY AILMENT They believed it could cure war wounds; banquets were certainly gladdened and life made lighter by the precious wine from Lagaria (a fortified centre in present-day Calabria founded by Epeus, who built the horse of Troy). And it was certainly also drunk in Roman Grumentum, which is quite close to the area where this type of Magna Graecian wine was produced. Strabo praised its sweetness and said it was recommended by doctors, and it was certainly a main ingredient of many nightly symposia, to which the kraters found in the necropolises, and now on display in the Archaeological Museum, bear witness.