When they arrive, people have to pay an additional cost for electricity, running water etc. Besides clients will leave a bond (caution money) on their arrival and it will be given back on their departure.
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A painting in the entrance, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Jupiter and Leda, gives the house its name. This is one of the rare examples in Pompeii of a house with a Corinthian atrium, where the atrium with a central impluvium is surrounded by columns, in this case twelve columns in tufo (the other two alternatives were the Tuscan atrium without columns and the tetrastyle atrium with four columns at the corners of the impluvium). Wall paintings with pictures of mythological subjects were frescoed on the walls of the rooms on either side of the tablinum. Most of them have been detached and are now in the Archaeo ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
IN VITULINAM ELIXAM (Boiled Veal)
(Apic. 8, 5, 3) Ingredients:
800 g – 1 kg veal
2 tblsp honey
2 tblsp vinegar
100 ml oil
100 ml Liquamen (or 100 ml white wine + 1 tsp salt)
Pepper
Privet
Cumin
Celery seeds to taste
a little bit of cornstarch
Instructions:
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Cook the veal for about 1 1/2 hour until well done. Mix together honey,
vinegar, oil, liquamen and spices in an extra pan. Boil the sauce only
shortly and thicken it with cornstarch. Then pour sauce over the veal
and let boil on low heat for another 10 minutes. ... 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.