Editing Capri (section)

===Antiquity===
[[File:Капри Руины Виллы Юпитера.jpg|thumb|The ruins of [[Villa Jovis]], completed by Emperor [[Tiberius]] in AD 27]]
Archaeological evidence indicates human presence on Capri dating back to the [[Neolithic]] and [[Bronze Age]]. The Roman historian [[Suetonius]] recounts that when workers excavated the foundations for Emperor [[Augustus]]'s villa, they discovered giant bones and stone weapons, which Augustus displayed in his residence, the [[Palazzo a Mare]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Suetonius |title=The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Augustus |chapter=72 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_the_Twelve_Caesars/Augustus#72 |access-date=19 February 2021|author1-link=Suetonius }}</ref> (Modern analysis suggests these may have been fossils of large extinct mammals).<ref>See discussion in, e.g., A. Mayor, *The First Fossil Hunters* (2000).</ref>

The Roman poet [[Virgil]], in the ''[[Aeneid]]'', referred to the island being inhabited by Greek settlers from the [[Ionian Islands]] (the Teleboi). The geographer [[Strabo]] noted that Capri anciently had two towns, later reduced to one.<ref>Strabo, ''Geography'', 5.4.9</ref>

Emperor Augustus developed Capri as a private resort, building villas, temples, and aqueducts, and planting gardens.<ref name="Fiori">{{cite news|last=Fiori|first=Pamela|title=Italy's Pleasure Island Capri|publisher=Town & Country}}</ref> His successor, [[Tiberius]], constructed twelve villas on the island according to [[Tacitus]]. The most famous, [[Villa Jovis]], is one of the best-preserved Roman villas in Italy. In AD 27, Tiberius moved permanently to Capri, governing the [[Roman Empire]] from the island until his death in AD 37.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} Later, in AD 182, Emperor [[Commodus]] exiled his sister [[Lucilla]] to Capri, where she was subsequently executed.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}