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THE DAY AFTER
A few days after the eruption an imperial commission of senators arrived in the Mount Vesuvius area to assess the damage and organise aid for the people. The land all the way from Naples to Stabiae was covered in a blanket of dark ash. There were no longer any houses, roads or trees. All forms of life had been wiped out.
The commission asked the Emperor Titus to help in repairing the damage to the town.
In 80 A.D. the Emperor came in person to the disaster areas but decided not to undertake any work in favour of the irredeemably buried towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The inhabitants who had survived the disaster were the first to begin excavations at Pompeii in an attempt to recover statues of their Gods and sacred objects from the ruins of their homes.
The site of Pompeii remained barren and the inhabitants looked elsewhere for refuge, abandoning the now inhospitable place for ever.
In 106 A.D., Titus wrote his Histories and published the letters of an eyewitness to the tragedy, Pliny the Younger. In one of his works the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) referred to the fate of the towns as an example of the frailty and precarious nature of our earthly existence.
In the early III century the historian Dion Cassius gave a new account of the catastrophe which had become news one again following another violent explosion of Vesuvius.
The emperor Alexander Severus (208 - 235 A.D.) began excavations to recover marble, columns and statues, but the works were soon interrupted. From the on Pompeii was completely forgotten. All that was left of the towns were vague directions on Roman maps, such as the Tabula Peutingeriana, which were reproduced up to the Middle Ages.
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
This small house stands opposite the well-known House of Menander in Vicolo Meridionale, which can be reached directly from Via Stabiana by taking the side street almost opposite the Temple of Jupiter Meilichios. The name was given to the house by the archaeologists who chose it from one of the nine election slogans painted on the front wall. The rooms are decorated with original third style paintings: in the winter triclinium, to the right of the four-columned atrium with its fountain in the impluvium, we see a young Bacchus offering wine to a tiger; in the next room, adjacent to the garden, there are paintings of busts of satyrs and maenads. The decorations on the t ... 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.