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This residential complex is situated in a side street of Via dell’Abbondanza, not far from the House of Menander, and actually comprises three building converted into one. It derives its name from the bronze statue of an Ephebe which was found in the house and was used to support oil-lamps needed to light the triclinium couches during evening receptions. Access to the house was through the second entrance-door and a Tuscan atrium which was flanked to the right by the family’s living quarters and, on the left, by the reception room and areas devoted to leisure activities and sport. Here, in addition to a few living-rooms, we find a large open triclinium which was once ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
SARDA ITA FIT (Tuna)
(Apic. 9, 10, 2) Ingredients:
500 g cooked tuna fillet
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1/2 tsp privet
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp rue
150 g dates (without stones)
1 tblsp honey
4 hard boiled eggs (in quarters)
50 ml white wine
2 tblsp wine vinegar
50 ml Defritum (or cooked wine)
2-3 tblsp green olive oil
Instructions:
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Cook tuna fillet. Mesh fillet together with dates, honey, wine, vinegar,
Defritum (or cooked wine) and oil. Put all into a bowl a ... continue
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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.