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A painting in the entrance, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples, of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, sons of Jupiter and Leda, gives the house its name. This is one of the rare examples in Pompeii of a house with a Corinthian atrium, where the atrium with a central impluvium is surrounded by columns, in this case twelve columns in tufo (the other two alternatives were the Tuscan atrium without columns and the tetrastyle atrium with four columns at the corners of the impluvium). Wall paintings with pictures of mythological subjects were frescoed on the walls of the rooms on either side of the tablinum. Most of them have been detached and are now in the Archaeo ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
PULLUS VARDANUS (Chicken à la Varus)
(Apic. 6, 8, 11) Ingredients:
1.4 kg chicken thighs and drumsticks
3 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
1 tbsp olive oil
250 ml fruity white wine (eg chablis)
white peppercorns
150 g pine nuts
whites of two boiled eggs, mashed with a fork
60 ml cooking liquid
60ml/120ml milk
Instructions:
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Cook the chicken by placing in a roasting tin, covering with the Liquamen, olive oil and white wine. Cover with a lid and bake at 180°C for 90 minutes or until the chicken is done. Drain the c ... 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.