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NEW DISCOVERIES IN XX CENTURY
The activity of Giuseppe Fiorelli is continued by his collaborators, Michele Ruggiero and Giulio de Petra, consolidating most of the buildings. During the period between 1906 and 1910 some very nice homes were found, including the House of the Vettii. Since the beginning of the twentieth century sophisticated techniques are increasingly using that allow to bring to light the houses in their entirety, up to the ceiling. It is a rare occasion in archaeological documentation, because normally only the basis of the monuments has survived so far, without their upper parts. Until 1923 Vittorio Spinazzola proceeds to liberate the town centre and the district of shops in Pompeii.
Since 1924, for almost 40 years, Pompeii is linked to the name of Amedeo Maiuri, who looked after the whole of the town and he fought for the conservation and protection of town with new special laws. During this long period, there are also some interruptions of work: the Second World War bore disastrous consequences on Pompeii, in part affected by the bombing. After the war, however, they started to dig back: from 1951 it will discover the walls in the necropolis Street Nocera. Later, some discoveries extra urban complete the picture the establishment of the area. To the north of Pompeii, Boscoreale, they bring to light two houses, accidentally discovered between 1897 and 1900 and later excavated. Today of these homes we have only a few ruins but many items, including vases and silver artefacts kept in the Louvre , and paintings scattered among various museums, from Naples to the Metropolitan in New York, to the museums of Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam. In 1964 the archaeologists bring to light the villa called Poppea to Oplontis, in the modern times called Torre Annunziata, a richly decorated building.
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This large building (approx. 2,700 sq.m.) was created by joining two residential complexes which covered an area nearly equal to that of the whole insula.
The house can be entered both from Via dell’Abbondanza and from Via Stabiana. It is arranged around two atria and three peristyle, and its name derives from a bronze statue of Apollo playing the lyre (today in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples).
Magnificent paintings and bronze portraits of famous personalities also found in it and are now on shown in the same museum.
As is inferred from electoral propaganda and a number of graffiti, it belonged to the Popidius family.
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 8, 7, 17) Ingredients:
- 750 g pork chops
- 100 ml white wine
- 4 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
- 4 tbsp water or broth
- 4 tbsp cider vinegar
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Instructions:
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Heat a frying pan, add a little oil and cook the pork chops until they are nearly done. Set the chops aside and clean the pan.
Add the remainder of the ingredients to the cleaned pan and place the chops in the liquid. Bring this to the boil and continue cooking the chops, turning them occasionally, until they are done. Place the chops on a the plat ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
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.