HOUSE OF SALLUSTIO - POMPEII

This house, which is situated in the town’s western quarter just before the street forks to the left towards the Porta Ercolano gate, is one of the oldest in Pompeii, dating from the 3rd century B.C.. In addition to the atrium with its surrounding rooms, it has a small covered porch behind the tablinum, a garden and a summer triclinium with stone couches. Towards the rear of the building there is a kitchen, a dining room and several bedrooms. The front of the building houses four shops, a tavern and a bakery with three millstones and an oven with a fireplace alongside. The owner probably took advantage of the house’s proximity to the Porta Ercolano gate and converted it into a boarding house with a number of bedrooms on the first floor and a restaurant next-door.

 

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This house was named in honour of the Italian royal couple, Umberto and Margherita of Savoy, on the occasion of their silver wedding anniversary in 1893, the same year in which the house was discovered. It is located in the last side street off Via Vesuvio, next to an area which has yet to be excavated. It was built in the 2nd century B.C. and is distinguished by its high atrium with four large column which support the roof and its bedroom where the sunlight was filtered by means of veils. There are two gardens. The first is in line with the atrium and has its own private bath-house and open-air swimming pool, a large kitchen and garden and an elegant living room. T ... continue

(Apic. 6, 1, 1) Ingredients:

• Ostrich meat (or small guinea fowl)
• Pepper
• Mint
• Cumin
• Fennel seeds
• 100 g stoned dates
• 1 tbsp honey
• 30 ml vinegar
• 30 ml passum (or passito wine)
• Liquamen ( or 2 tsp anchovy paste)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp starch

Instructions:
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Put the ostrich meat into a large stock pot, cover with water and simmer gently for 2½ hours until thoroughly cooked. Drain the bird and dry well. Grind the spices in a pestle and mortar. Add the ... continue

Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.