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HAVE A GREAT PRIVATE EXCURSION FROM THE PORT OF NAPLES TO NAPLES CENTER, POMPEII, SORRENTO AND AMALFI COAST IN ONE DAY AT A REASONABLE PRICE !!!
Why do not you arrange with us an amazing day in the Gulf of Naples - a private tour (just for you) with a comfortable limousine or minivan with driver and an English-speaking tour guide? We have organized for you a great guided tour to Naples-Pompeii-Sorrento-Amalfi Coast (Positano). Contact us by e-mail info@pompeii.org.uk for further info.
POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
On the eastern side of the Foro, there’s a majestic and elegant building with a marble frieze above the portal. Two inscriptions attribute this building to Eumachia, a priestess of Venus and owner of a flourishing business operating in the wool industry, which she had inherited from her husband. Indeed this is thought to be the seat of the Corporation of wool and cloth manufacturers, although another interpretation claim that the building was dedicated by the priestess to the Gens Iulia and was used for cult worship of the Emperor Augustus through the statues of his ancestor. The building itself dates from the Tiberian age and looks onto the Forum from a façade with tw ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 4, 2, 35) Ingredients:
- 1 kg pears (peeled and without core)
- 6 eggs
- 4 table spoon of honey
- 100 ml Passum or wine ‘passito’
- a little bit oil
- 50ml Liquamen, or 1/4 table spoon of salt
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- ground pepper to taste
Instructions:
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Mix cooked and peeled pears (without core) together with pepper, cumin,
honey, Passum, Liquamen and a bit of oil. Add eggs and put into a
casserole. Cook approximately 30 minutes on small to moderate heat.
Serve with a bit of pepper sprinkled on the soufflé.
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.