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This house is attributed to M. Lucretius because his name appears as addressee on a letter depicted, with a kit for writing letters, in a wall painting in a room near the garden. He was an important figure who held the office of decurion in the city and was a priest of Mars. This patrician house had fine wall paintings, now mostly in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. In the atrium there are still some frescoes in IV style with imaginary architectures, and in the tablinum the Triumphs of Bacchus with a satyr and a Victory. There must also have been various panel paintings in the tablinum which unfortunately have been lost. The atrium lacks a central impluvium and ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
EMBRACTUM BAIANUM (Baian Stew)
(Apic. 9, 11) Ingredients:
20 oysters (tinned will do if you can't find fresh)
20 venus clams
40 mussels
8 small squid cleaned and cut into rings (keep the tentacles intact to garnish)
100 g roasted pine nuts, roughly chopped
2 celery sticks
Rue, finely chopped
10 pitted dates, chopped
Liquamen (or salt)
50 ml passum (or white wine)
Olive oil
Pepper
Ground coriander seed
Ground cumin
Instructions:
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Soak the oy ... 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.