Mantha Zarmakoupi is a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Department of Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA). Her research in classical art and archaeology is informed by her background in architectural practice, history, and theory of architecture.
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples would be a rewarding investment for anyone enrolled in a course on Roman domestic architecture. It is definitely a book to add to the reading list. Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Phoenix Mantha Zarmakoupi's volume on villas and landscapes around the Bay of Naples is an essential examination of the architecture and decoration of some of the best-known Roman elite villas, appraised through a thoughtful social-historical lens ... The volume is thoughtful in its combination of architectural description with the literary, material, and cultural contextualization of life in luxury villas. Francesca C. Tronchin, The Classical Journal Zarmakoupi's work provides a useful perspective on ways to analyze Roman villas and their architectural features by examining how social interactions would have contributed to the selection and design of architectural elements ... Zarmakoupi's work sheds light on sites that have seldom been published, and can offer tremendous data on ancient Roman luxury villa lifestyles. Ismini Alexandra Miliaresis, The Classical Journal Online Congratulations are in order. This book is a must-read for all Pompeianisti and, more generally, for all students of Roman architecture as a cultural, not merely a stylistic and technological, phenomenon. Fred S. Kleiner, American Journal of Archaeology