The ruins of this town are part of Italy's only underwater archaeological park.
A poetry collection set at and named for this place instructs Hermione to "clothe those shining breasts, / Desist from stirring the insanity of lovers" since the speaker is "congealed by old age". That book of hendecasyllabics is subtitled for this place, and was written by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Seneca praises Scipio for spending his exile at Liternum because his "downfall did not need a setting so effeminate" in a letter to Lucilius about "morals" and this place. A prophecy made by the astrologer Thrasyllus supposedly inspired Caligula to build a 3-mile long bridge at this place so that he could cross it by horse. The ruins of this town contain enormous barges that effectively functioned as palaces. The ruins of this town are part of Italy's only underwater archaeological park. For 10 points, name this ancient Roman pleasure town on the Bay of Naples.
A poetry collection set at and named for this place instructs Hermione to "clothe those shining breasts, / Desist from stirring the insanity of lovers" since the speaker is "congealed by old age".
Baiae [or Baia]