Baiae

Mary Shelley commented: "The Bay of Baiae is beautiful but we are disappointed by the various places we visit" (The

Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man 1995

Vinicius: “You were very ill-mannered to visit my daughter at Baiae.”

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Two decades down the line and under new ownership, this same tranquil villa near Baiae was to be the scene of perhaps the most notorious and colorfully described assassination in Roman history after that of Julius Caesar.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

In March 59 a conciliatory invitation was sent by Nero to his mother, inviting her to an evening banquet in Baiae, where he was presiding over a festival in honor of the Roman goddess Minerva.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Hadrian survived his wife by barely a year, dying at Baiae on 10 July 138, at age sixty-two, possibly of coronary heart disease.52 In 139 his remains were dug up from their temporary resting place in the gardens of Domitia and reinterred in his just completed fifty-meter-high mausoleum overlooking the Tiber, alongside those of Sabina.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

They build on high hills, in hot countries, for more air; or to the seaside, as Baiae, Naples, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Posilipo to the Grotto del Cane and away to Baiae: or take the other way, towards Vesuvius and Sorrento, it is one succession of delights.

Pictures from Italy 2007

Tryphaena trembled violently, "You would think we had slept together," she cried, "for a bust of Neptune, which I saw in the gallery at Baiae, said to me, in my dream -- You will find Giton aboard Lycas 'ship!"

Satyricon 2007

Lucullus the Roman had his house at Rome, at Baiae, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Perhaps the reader remembers one of the humorous devices of the deified Caligula: how he encouraged a vast concourse of holiday-makers on to his bridge over Baiae bay; and when they were in the height of their enjoyment, turned loose the Praetorian guards among the company, and had them tossed into the sea.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005