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On the eastern side of the Foro, there’s a majestic and elegant building with a marble frieze above the portal. Two inscriptions attribute this building to Eumachia, a priestess of Venus and owner of a flourishing business operating in the wool industry, which she had inherited from her husband. Indeed this is thought to be the seat of the Corporation of wool and cloth manufacturers, although another interpretation claim that the building was dedicated by the priestess to the Gens Iulia and was used for cult worship of the Emperor Augustus through the statues of his ancestor. The building itself dates from the Tiberian age and looks onto the Forum from a façade with tw ... continue

(Apic. 4, 2, 27) Ingredients:

• 1 whole firm-fleshed fish
• 200 ml fish stock
• 30 ml white wine reduced
• Liquamen to taste (or soya sauce)
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 sliced leek
• 1 tsp coriander seeds
• large pinch of black peppercorns
• 1 tsp lovage (or celery seeds)
• 1 tsp chopped fresh oregano
• 2 raw egg yolks
• twist of black pepper

Instructions:
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Fillet the fish and add these to a pot before topping with fish stock, wine, olive oil, liquam ... 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.