The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto is a small house of the Roman Imperial period. Marcus Lucretius was in charge of the Roman cavalry and a priest of Mars. The House of Marcus Lucretius contains frescoes depicting the Wedding of Mars and Venus, Narcissus at the fountain, the Toilet of Venus, and Theseus and Ariadne. These frescoes are some of the finest uncovered in Pompeii. The peristyle of the house is raised with an African landscape. At the back of the garden, water runs from a mosaic fountain out of a statue of Silenus, the teacher and faithful companion of the wine-god Bacchus. The peristyle is decorated with hunting scenes. The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 13 to 20 feet ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Entitled: "The House of Lucretius, Pompeii, Italy, Stereograph credited to Carleton H. Graves, 1904."