ocr: grafted the grace and beauty of Hellenistic house architecture- a peristyle and a garden, living and reception rooms, decoration of the walls and floors with paintings and mosaics. One of the finest examples of this happy union of Italic and Hellenistic architecture in Pompeii is the House of the Faun, with its two atria, two peristyles, a bath, guest quarters and a reception room whose floor was paved with al large mosaic, picturing the battle of Alexander, which is regarded as perhaps the most spectacular work of artistic composition preserved from the ancient world. There are many other man ...
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