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The house may have belonged to one or the other of these two patrician personages whose names appears more than once in the election slogans painted on the facade. The house is Samnite in type and the tall entrance portal leads to a vestibule with a mosaic pavement in which the portal itself and a chained dog are depicted. Next come the atrium decorated with mosaic panels with figures of animals. This had already been damaged in the earthquake of 62 A.D., as had the style IV wall paintings, of which only two still life survive. At the centre of the pavement, an alabaster tondo is surrounded by a double guilloche motif, palmettes and animals in panels. After this co ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
LEPOREM FARSUM (Stuffed Roast Hare)
(Apic. 8, 8, 3) Ingredients:
1 whole hare or rabbit
225 g whole pine kernels
100 g shelled almonds
100 g chopped mixed nuts
25 g peppercorns
2 eggs, beaten
Rue (or celery leaves)
1 small onion, chopped
100 g stoned dates, chopped
1 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
2 tbsp spiced wine (basically mulled wine)
Instructions:
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Mix together the pine kernels, almonds, chopped nuts, peppercorns and the chopped giblets of the hare or rabbit. Bind this mixture with ... 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.