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This building is clearly visible from the sea as it is situated on the promontory of the hill of Pompeii and commands a wide view over the plain below. Passing along Via dell’Abbondanza to the end of Via dei Teatri we find a portico with three Ionic columns and a semicolumn which form the entrance to the Triangular Forum. The Hellenistic style arrangement of the area, which has a colonnade with 95 columns, dates back to the 2nd century B.C. This intervention created a harmonious protective curtain around the pre-existing Doric Temple and at the same time annexed this sacred area to the theatre district and the two gymnasiums as the foursided portico behind the stage of ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
AMULATUM ALITER (Chicken fricassee)
(Apic. 2, 2, 9) Ingredients:
Basically, chicken fricassee..
1 whole chicken, deboned or 2 boneless, skinless thighs, 2 boneless, skinless breasts chopped into pieces
2 bunches of leeks, usually 3-5 of them in a bunch cut into pieces and washed
1 small bunch of dill weed, or about 1 tsp. dried
3 qt. water or 1.5 qt. each chicken broth and water, keeping back 2 cups for later
black pepper to taste
celery seed to taste
2/3 cup of rice flour
fish sauce to taste
3 tbs. red wine
Instructions:
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Disjoint a chicken ... continue
COME AND DISCOVER THE BEAUTIES OF CAMPANIA
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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.