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This large house, built in the 2nd century B.C. and restructured during the Imperial age, opens onto Via di Nola and consists of a double Tuscan atrium and a peristyle with a double order of columns at the front. The house was given this name as it was discovered in 1879, the year of the eighteenth centenary of the eruption which completely buried Pompeii. It is divided into two sections: the main house, for the master’s family, and the servants’ quarters, with a separate entrance from a side street. In line with tradition it has a private bath-house and swimming pool. A particularly beautiful nymphaeum with a fountain is situated at the rear of the peristyle and a b ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
IN VITULINAM ELIXAM (Boiled Veal)
(Apic. 8, 5, 3) Ingredients:
800 g – 1 kg veal
2 tblsp honey
2 tblsp vinegar
100 ml oil
100 ml Liquamen (or 100 ml white wine + 1 tsp salt)
Pepper
Privet
Cumin
Celery seeds to taste
a little bit of cornstarch
Instructions:
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Cook the veal for about 1 1/2 hour until well done. Mix together honey,
vinegar, oil, liquamen and spices in an extra pan. Boil the sauce only
shortly and thicken it with cornstarch. Then pour sauce over the veal
and let boil on low heat for another 10 minutes. ... continue
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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.