CIVIL FORUM - POMPEII

The Forum is a great rectangular square (38 metres of width and 142 metres of lenght) originally paved with tufa; after the earthquake of 62 BC the paving was remade of travertine. A portico in double order, the lower one Doric and the upper one Ionic, surrounded the Forum on three sides, except the northern side. The square was a pedestrian precinct with the service streets blocked through special rocks. The Forum was the political, economic, commercial, religious center of the city. On the southern side of the portico some monumental bases of imperial honorary statues are visible, while along the porticoes there are some statues of nobles citizens. Public, religious, economic buildings was sited around the Forum, almost hidden by the portico, while the only completely visible building was the Temple of Jove. In the north the Forum is closed by two triumphal brick arches, which at one time were faced with marble.

 

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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

(Apic. 4, 2, 30) Ingredients:

• 500 g boiled fillet of small fishes or whole sardelles
• 150 g dried raisins (sultanas)
• 1/2 tblsp freshly ground pepper
• 1 tblsp privet
• 1 tblsp oregano
• 2 small diced onions
• 200 ml oil
• 50 ml Liquamen, or 1/2 tblsp salt
• wine
• cornstarch

Instructions:
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Mix raisins, pepper, privet, oregano, onion, wine, Liquamen and oil
together and put in a casserole. Cook until done. Then put small boiled
fish fillets or boiled small whole fishes into it. Thicke ... 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.