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Living in Pompeii before Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD. History and RolePlay under the shadow of this crucial historic event.

Taberna: the business quarter (1 threads, 565 posts)
    Phil´s Exotica (55 posts)
    Role Play Thread 0 Featured January 23 , 2004

    The Romans were more interested in regulating prostitution, not eradicating it, in spite of their general contempt for women who became prostitutes. They adopted the idea of state-controlled brothels, or lupinar (house of she-wolves) but it wasn't until the time of the Emperor Augustus that a set of codes governed the behavior, restrictions and privileges of prostitutes. They were forbidden to cover their faces in public, forbidden to wear the color purple, to wear shoes or to put their hair in fillets. They were also required to dye their hair red or yellow. ...
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    Author: * Benvolio Baoisgne - 1 Post on this thread out of 35 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Mar 28, 2004 - 07:10

    Benvolio walked into Phil's and was impressd by the set up. A first class establishment he thought. Not like some of the dives that he had seen in Rome. First of all this place was immaculate, not a speck of dirt anywhere. And the furnishings are good enough to belong to any of those ritzy villas on Marine Road. Benvolio had decided to extend his stay in Pompeii because he found the city very much to his liking. Arrius had invited him to check this place out and so here he was. Even old geezers like himself needed the companionship of a sweet young girl every now and then. Just because there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there isn't a fire in the furnace!


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