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This luxurious residence houses an impressive collection of fresco decorations typical of the wall paintings in the houses of rich Pompeian traders. The excavation techniques used made it possible to preserve, in almost all the rooms in the complex, the fourth style figure paintings completed after the earthquake of 62 A.D.. The brothers Aulus Vettius Restitutus and Aulus Vettius Conviva commissioned their fresco decorations from one of the leading artists’ workshops so that their home would be not only a comfortable residence, but also a “status symbol”. The house is divided into two areas: firstly, the part in which the family lived, laid out around the main atriu ... continue

(Apic. 5, 2, 17) Ingredients:

• 1 fillet stockfish
• 1 calves’ brain
• 4 chicken livers
• 7 eggs
• 250 gr. ‘ricotta’ cheese
• 12 grain pepper
• 12 grain lovage
• 1 tblsp dry oregano
• 1 rue berry
• 1/2 glass dry wine (like Marsala)
• 3 tsp honey
• 3 tblsp oil
• Cumin

Instructions:
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Softening stockfish in water for 5 - 6 hours, dry, skin, bone and fry in a little bit of oil. Blanch calves’ brain for 5 minutes and cool. Blanch chicken livers for ... 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.