Domus Scipiones

The old house of Scipio in the Aventine. It belonged to Africanus himself, and then it was passed down through his line. After Aemilianus' death, it ended in the hands of his closest kin, Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, son of Nasica Serapio, the one who murdered his own cousin, Tiberius Gracchus. The manse is ample and big, but it's could be considered slightly rustic and simple, mostly because of its age, build in a time when the patricians didn't spend fortuned in marble-covered homes. However, it does have certain old-fashioned flair and its own baths, made of red brick. Aemilianus built a new atrium in a flamboyant hellenistic fashion and also refurbished the triclinium. However, it lacks the sheer magnificence of some other palatial manses in the city: one still can glance old Rome in the aged walls.The building sits prominently atop the Aventine hill, with a bust of Africanus crowning the facade. A maze of houses surrounds it, many of them precariously clinging to the recint's periphery. The property has high walls with buttresses and a solid oaken door -build during uncertain times by the always weary Scipiones. One can glance the family's monumental tomb from the highest terrace: a true memento mori; ironically, neither Africanus or Aemilianus are buried there, but in the large villa they both owned in Liternum, a large rural property.

Dominus: Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (b. 133 AC).
Domina: Licinia Maior (b. 118 BC).