The mission of the Oplontis Project (2006-present) is to conduct a multidisciplinary study of Villa A (“of Poppaea”) and Villa B (“of Lucius Crassius Tertius”) at Oplontis (Torre Annunziata, Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The directors of the Oplontis Project are John R. Clarke of the University of Texas at Austin and Michael L. Thomas of the University of Texas at Dallas. Thanks to a concession from the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Project has engaged an international team of scholars to publish definitive studies of the sites. So far, two volumes of the series have appeared as Open Access, “born digital” offerings of the Humanities E-Book Series of the American Council of Learned Societies. A catalogue of the traveling exhibition, Leisure and Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii (2016) is available in hard copy.

A fully navigable 3D model of Villa A will accompany the third digital volume, and the comprehensive Project database of all excavated material is currently available for further study: https://db.oplontisproject.org Please note that this is a large database and may take a bit of time to load.