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This house is situated in a side street on the Via di Nola, which has only been partly excavated and which is named after the house. The house itself is well known for the refined third style decorations, considered to be superior to those found in Rome. The juxtaposition of shiny black walls with interposed yellow bands depicting arabesques and hunting scenes, and the black floor with inlaid pieces of marble is particularly unusual. The decorations in the tablinum are worth close examination and depict landscapes with villas and gardens as well as two mythological paintings. The wall to the left illustrates the marriage of Venus ands Mars while to the right we can ... continue

(Apic. ) Ingredients:

• 1 fresh chicken (approx. 1-1.5 kg)
• 300 g minced meat (half beef, half pork)
• 100 g groats (of oat)
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml white wine
• 1 tblsp oil
• 1 tblsp privet
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground pepper
• 1 tsp green peppercorns
• 50 g stone-pine kernels
• Liquamen or salt to taste

Instructions:
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Mesh ground pepper, privet, ginger, minced meat and cooked groats. Add eggs and mix until you have a smooth mass. Season with Liquamen, add oi ... continue

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.