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This is one of the patrician houses which were built in the shelter of the town walls during the first imperial age. The various rooms of the residence are laid out in terraces descending the natural slope of the hill on which the town of Pompeii was founded and thus enjoy a fine view over the Gulf of Naples. The villa was destroyed by the earthquake of 62 A.D. and was never rebuilt although a number of significant features are still visible today: these include the 80-metre-long colonnade with its 43 columns. Although these are no longer intact, they were originally decorated with white stucco to create a fluted effect and stood out sharply against the rear wall wi ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
PULLUM FRONTONIANUM (Chicken a la Fronto)
(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
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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.