marf Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Pretty amazing. Pompeii Graffiti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 "II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: On April 19th, I made bread" Is this a euphemism for pinching a loaf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wall Bird Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Haha. Wow. In it's own way, this stuff is more fun than graffiti I see around the city everyday. Unless these are the equivalent of scrawls in a bathroom stall, which they may well be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity! come on first thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Herculaneum (bar/inn joined to the maritime baths); 10677: Apelles the chamberlain with Dexter, a slave of Caesar, ate here most agreeably and had a screw at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 this one is particularly apt: IX.8.3 (House of the Centenary; interior of the house); 5279: Once you are dead, you are nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1811: A small problem gets larger if you ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 My dad went to Pompeii last summer and told me of drawings of penises on the walls pointing towards the bordellos. Ingenious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales... aaah, good old Priapus priapus is the god of cocks and should became the mascot of watmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 I wonder if other cities in Italy had this graffiti. If not, is it because pompeii was frozen in time? It must have been a trend all over the empire. Its hard to believe this was a 1000 years before the middle ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Its hard to believe this was a 1000 years before the middle ages. Because it wasn't, Vesuvius blew only a few hundred years before the start of the Middle Ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Pompeii was destroyed in AD 79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Middle Ages start at the fall of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD. pwn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted May 16, 2009 Author Share Posted May 16, 2009 Well ok, but I don't think of the middle ages as that time, but I guess you are technically right. I think of that time, the fall of rome and the middle ages as the "Dark ages", but what I meant is there is such a stark contrast between the Roman culture, which seems more in tune with our own, than the cruel, backward and monastic way of thinking prevalent in the writings and practices documented in the time of the middle ages. I can't find much in the way of paintings and writings before the year 1000. Id love to be pointed to some if you know of any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Well Constantine fucked it up for everyone. Pre-1000 AD in general or pre-1000 AD post-400 AD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aencre Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Apparently defecation and incontinence were common woes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 I went there as a kid with my dad and I remember there being all sorts of sexual imagery...my favorite was a statue of a guy weighing his enormous cock on a set of scales... aaah, good old Priapus priapus is the god of cocks and should became the mascot of watmm Priapus joined Pan and the satyrs as a spirit of fertility and growth, though he was perennially frustrated by his impotence. He attempted to rape the nymph Lotis but was thwarted by an ass, whose braying caused him to lose his erection at the critical moment and woke Lotis. He pursued the nymph until the gods took pity on her and turned her into a lotus plant. The episode gave him a lasting hatred of asses and a willingness to see them killed in his honour. In the end, his lust gave him a permanent erection and his penis grew so large that he was unable to move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 Middle Ages start at the fall of the Roman Empire, around 400 AD. pwn. Western empire only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest melotronic Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 i've been, pompeii is lush... amazing stuff. VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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