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A fact from House of the Faun appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the House of the Faun, one of the grandest private residences discovered in Pompeii, is named after the statue of a dancing faun (replica pictured), in its central impluvium?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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Hi, I will be working on this article as a project for Art of the Ancient Mediterranean Art History class for this Fall semester, and have started compiling a list of sources to go off as I add details. I will post it below and hopefully can get some feedback on this bibliography to see if my sources are relevant enough.

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Conticello, Baldassare. “[The Next Century].” Archaeology, vol. 44, no. 2, 1991, pp. 22–25. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41765934.
DONOVAN, MATT. “House of the Faun, Pompeii.” Agni, no. 76, 2012, pp. 26–33. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23621338.
Dwyer, Eugene. “The Unified Plan of the House of the Faun.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 60, no. 3, 2001, pp. 328–343. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/991759.
“In Memoriam Monumentorum.” Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 3, no. 3, 1943, pp. 26–27. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/901225.
Little, A. M. G. “The Decoration of the Hellenistic Peristyle House in South Italy.” American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 39, no. 3, 1935, pp. 360–371. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/498623.
Merola, Marco. “Alexander PIECE by PIECE.” Archaeology, vol. 59, no. 1, 2006, pp. 36–40. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41781446.

Bdoreynoso 16:42, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Beautiful article! please tell me how you got all those pictures to download and how you formatted so nicely. It is a very informative article as well. Could there possibly be more to say about the layout or the function of some of the other rooms? Also, an explanation of how and why the eruption so pristinely preserved the artwork would be very interesting - just a short something. Good job! Jim944928 22:03, 14 May 2007 (UTC) Jim Larson[reply]

I really liked this article! The pictures you found are great, and I think they really help a reader picture what the House of the Faun would have been like in ancient times. There are a lot of interesting details, like the part about the "HAVE" mosaic. I do agree with Jim that you could expand on the architecture and the explosion. Otherwise, I think it's very informative and well-organized. --Sonaleejoshi 01:36, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fauns with feet[edit]

I'm familiar with the image of a faun as a creature with goatlike hooves and lower body, as described in the faun entry and in Wiktionary. To me this looks like a statue of a human being. Could someone explain the use of this term? Mike Serfas 13:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not entirley sure, but on the faun page, it is said that satyrs, which are closely connected to fauns, originally had human feet. Although this statue is a faun and not a satyr, it's possible the artist was inspired more by the satyr's appearance.--EAFEAF 19:01, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The statue is indeed a satyr. Roman houses are typically named for unique objects or works of art found within them during excavations. The House of the Faun was named for the statue of the satyr that was erroneous identified as a faun.--Ewg118 (talk) 02:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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