Casa dei casta amanti fresco | Dickinson College Commentaries

Two couples recline on their left elbows. The men are at the head of the couches, the women lean against the mens' chests and holding large drinking vessels. In the center foreground a small round three-legged table with glass drinking vessels on top stands between the couches. In the upper left background of the fresco a slave supports a woman who has had too much to drink. In the lower right foreground a portion of a second round table with drinking vessels is visible.

Annotations

Couples dining and drinking (1st century AD). Fresco from Pompeii, from the triclinium of the "casa dei casti amanti" (actually a baker's residence, XI.12.6-7).

Online Resources

Photo © Jules Vloothuis, used by pemission.

Associated Passages

Ovid, Amores 1.4