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This small house stands opposite the well-known House of Menander in Vicolo Meridionale, which can be reached directly from Via Stabiana by taking the side street almost opposite the Temple of Jupiter Meilichios. The name was given to the house by the archaeologists who chose it from one of the nine election slogans painted on the front wall. The rooms are decorated with original third style paintings: in the winter triclinium, to the right of the four-columned atrium with its fountain in the impluvium, we see a young Bacchus offering wine to a tiger; in the next room, adjacent to the garden, there are paintings of busts of satyrs and maenads. The decorations on the t ... continue

(Apic. 6, 9, 13) Ingredients:

• 1 fresh chicken (approx. 1-1.5 kg)
• 100 ml oil
• 200 ml Liquamen or 200 ml wine + 2 tsp salt
• 1 branch of leek
• Fresh dill
• Fresh savory
• Coriander
• Pepper to taste
• a little bit of Defritum (or wine syrup)

Instructions:
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Start to fry chicken and season with a mixture of Liquamen and oil, together with bunches of dill, leek, savory and fresh coriander. Then cook approximately 1 hour with 220 deg C in the oven. When the chicken is done, moisten a plate with Defritum ... 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.