Marzano and Métraux’s edited volume, “The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin”, presents a collection of 25 papers and is poised to become a standard reference on the archaeology of the Roman villa from the late Republic through late antiquity. In a brief “Introduction”, the editors frame the volume’s papers as witnesses to “the expansion and proliferation of villas in the Mediterranean Basin under Roman hegemony.” Its goals are equally wide-reaching: to bring attention to recent discoveries and interpretative models; and to sketch a path for future interpretative and analytical studies. These impart some methodological cohesion to a mix of site reports, broad historical surveys, and thematic analyses, which are organized into four sections: villas in the Bay of Naples; villas in the Mediterranean provinces; the late antique villa; and the reception of the Roman villa in the (early) modern era.