The ruin of a 2nd-century nymphaeum is among the most visible sights of Herodes Atticus’ Triopium, a vast estate near the Appia Antica in Rome. Herodes Atticus inherited the vast holding from his wife, the powerful and renowned Annia Regilla. Herodes Atticus, also a famous sophist at the time, had been invited to Rome to tutor the two adopted sons of Antoninus Pius, the future emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. In Rome, he married the 14-year old Regilla, who was related to Antoninus Pius’s wife, Faustina the Elder, and…
