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Along the wide perimeter of the walls, still recognizable, opened no less than seven doors. Only of two we know the ancient denomination, but to the other has been ascribed a conventional name that express well their function and their placement in the general topography: Porta Marina Gate, Porta Ercolano Gate, Porta Vesuvio Gate, Porta di Nola Gate, Porta di Sarno Gate, Porta Nocera Gate and Porta di Stabia Gate. At the moment of the eruption the doors had lost their strategic or defensive role for let space to more wide and convenient doorway useful for commercial traffic and exaction of tribute. The eruption has crystallized them in a transformation that has never ... continue

(Apic. 5, 6, 1) Ingredients:

• 500 g soybeans with pod, or green beans
• 50 ml Liquamen, or 1/2 tsp salt with 50ml wine
• 1-2 tblsp oil
• 1 tblsp minced coriander leaves
  (or 1/2 tblsp ground coriander seed)
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/2 minced branch of leek

Instructions:
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Cook beans with Liquamen, oil, leek and spices. Serve.

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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.