Tour Capri

Towards the top of the walls there is a richly decorated frieze where figures of divinities alternate with fantastic architecture. In the pictures from the left are Daedalus presenting Pasiphae the wooden cow Ixion tied to the wheel of Hephaestus watched by an angry Juno, with Nephele, Ixion's lover, at the foot of the throne in anguish. To the right is Dionysus suprising the sleeping Ariadne. In the other smaller room to the south east, the pictures and the architectural prospects stand out on the walls and here represent three myths of the Theban cycle the infant Hercules strangling a serpent sent by Juno, Pentheus being killed by the enraged bull, the subject which, in the famous ‘Toro Farnese’ is translated into the largest group statue that has been handed down from ancient times. Next to the triclinium is a small, pretty portico which illuminates the rooms of an appartment reserved for the women of the house gineceo. Finally, in the secondary atrium, to the west, there is a beautiful lararium or small tempie, decorated in stucco work, with the figure of a Genus or head of the family, between the Lares underneath there is the snake Agathodemone with funeral offerings. In a small courtyard in a hidden part of the house is the kitchen on the ashes of the hearth there are stili a trivet and a cauldron in bronze. Next to it is the kitchen sink.