CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ON WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN MARITIME VILLAS - (G.) Ciucci, (B.) Davidde Petriaggi, (C.) Rousse (edd.) Villae maritimae del Mediterraneo occidentale. Nascita, diffusione e trasformazione di un modello architettonico. (Collection de l’École française de Rome 614.) Pp. 354, b/w & colour ills, b/w & colour maps. Rome: École française de Rome, 2024. Paper, €62. ISBN: 978-2-7283-1613-7.

This volume presents twenty papers from a 2019 conference on western Mediterranean maritime villas from the late Republic to late antiquity. The collection focuses primarily on the central Tyrrhenian coast and Croatian sites, with additional contributions on France, Tripolitania, and Baetica. Some chapters offer valuable new data and employ innovative technologies like 3-D modeling and underwater archaeology, while others provide useful summaries of existing literature. The book encompasses diverse topics including site reports, technical analyses of fishponds and sea-level changes, late antique transformations, and representations in literary and visual sources. The volume's varied content demonstrates sustained scholarly interest in Roman maritime villas and contributes fresh archaeological evidence to this expanding field of research.