The House of the Faun is another well preserved private
home, so called because of the statue of a dancing faun within the impulvium.
The floors all had colorful mosaics, the most famous of which depicts a battle
between Alexander the Great and King Darius of Persia,
now at the Naples Museum.
The house is huge, occupying a whole
city block and contains a number of atriums, peristyles or gardens and private
rooms.
The House of the Tragic Poet is typical of a small, middle
class home in Pompeii. The walls
contain frescos of heroic and mythological subjects. There is a mosaic at the
front entrance of an angry dog on a chain with the inscription: Cave Canem.
Beware of the dog.
The Street of Abundance
The Street of Abundance is one of the most preserved streets
in Pompeii. It is lined with shops
and sumptuous houses. It does not take much imagination to see the place
bustling with traffic and commerce, just as it was nearly two thousand years
ago.
The Odeon
The Odeon is a smaller theatre, just around the corner from
the larger amphitheatre. In ancient times it was the venue for plays or poetry
readings. It was also covered by a roof during antiquity,
The Macellum
The Macellum was a covered market facing the Forum and is
lined with a colonnaded porch. Food was sold there, including fish and that
peculiar fish paste called garem that ancient Romans put on all of their food
in the same way people today use ketchup or hot sauce,. It was also a place
where money changers worked,