HOUSE OF CAECILIUS JUCUNDUS - POMPEII

This house, with its classical layout around an atrium and a peristyle, belonged to the banker of Pompeii, and his entire archives consisting of 154 waxed writing tablets dating between 53 and 62 A.D. were found intact. These consisted of sale contract for land, animal or slaves and receipts for the payment of colonial taxes, as L.C. Jucundus was also the official tax collector.
The bronze portrait – commissioned by the freedman Felix – found in the tablinum of the house gives us a clear image of what his father looked like. In this house, researchers found two marble bas-reliefs (both subsequently stolen). One of them depicts the Temple of Jupiter which whose damaged during the earthquake of 62 A.D. and the relevant expiatory sacrifice, while the other depicts the Castellum Aquae with the Porta Vesuvio gate collapsing.

 

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These baths were situated in Via delle Terme at the the very centre of Pompeii, in the building opposite the Temple of Fortuna Augusta. They were built in the first year of the founding of the colony with public funds and were always assiduously frequented by the town authorities. The damage suffered during the earthquake was immediately repaired, and they were in fact the only baths in use at the moment of the eruption in 79 A.D.. Although by no means a large establishment, the Forum bath were nevertheless equipped with all the bathing facilities that a Roman citizen could desire. It were subdivided into men’s and woman’s section, each with their own independent ent ... continue

(Apic. 4, 2, 28) Ingredients:

• 1 sole fillet per person
• Olive oil
• White wine
• Pepper
• Lovage (or chopped celery leaves)
• Oregano
• Liquamen (or soya sauce)
• Eggs

Instructions:
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Place the sole fillets in a shallow pan. Add the olive oil, white wine and liquamen. Place the fish in an oven for about 20 minutes at 150°C to poach. Whilst the fish is cooking place a pinch of peppercorns, ... 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.