He also maintains that the architecture of his villas is the purest classic: each has a Greek peristyle and a square belvedere.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
In the peristyle of a house in Nola Street, the names of some thirty gladiators can be read, with the character of their arms and the number of their conflicts.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The atrium or entrance hall of the house is represented on this hypothesis by the forecourt of the basilica; the peristyle, or colonnade round the inner room, becomes the aisles and the space screened off at the entrance for those not entitled to take full part in the service; the colonnade at the further end survives in the arcaded screen which existed, for example, in old St Peter's at Rome; the apse takes the place of the tablinum, where the most sacred relics of family life were preserved; and the transept, which is found in some of the early Roman basilican plans, represents the alae, or transverse space, which existed between the tablinum and the main body of the hall.
"The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church"
A. Hamilton Thompson