Who leans so lasciviously on the rock seat and stretches out his arm towards the half-naked beauty? Is it Mars and Venus at the divine tête-à-tête? Or does the fresco show Daphne being harassed by Apollo? In one thing, Gabriel breeding bar and the two archaeologists agree: “It is the depiction of an erotic encounter.” Which is not surprising, as Breeding Riegel adds: “If a mythological wall painting in Pompeii has no erotic content, that’s an exception.”
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