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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 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. 7, 13, 4) Ingredients:
- 4 lbs. mushrooms
- 1 bunch of coriander
- 4 cups of caroenum (red wine, simmered until reduced by about 1/2 cup)
Instructions:
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Wash mushrooms and coriander. Halve mushrooms unless they're small. Place mushrooms and coriander in reduced wine and simmer 10 minutes. Remove coriander. Let cool and put away in the refrigerator for at least 24 hours.
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.