The house has a rich and refined pictorial decoration with cultured literary references. It owes its name to the stucco decoration of a room near the atrium, which probably consisted of a small home chapel, with scenes of the Trojan War. The choice of this theme, which is also linked to certain frescoes of the House of the Cryptoporticus, suggests the probable intention of the owner of the house to enhance the origins of his family, linking them with the history of Rome.

One of the rooms facing the garden is decorated with a large fresco with two huge elephants led by cupids who use myrtle branches as reins, the sacred plant of Venus. The scene is probably interpreted as a celebration of the power of the goddess.

Date of excavation: 1911-1929.