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Household gods that protected the family and home.
What were the Lares?
The central reception area for guests and family.
What is the atrium?
The dining room where people ate and reclined.
What was the triclinium used for in Pompeii?
A wealthy Pompeiian woman who leased out rooms in her large estate.
Who was Juliua Felix?
79 AD
When did the eruption take place?
A personal god or spirit that protected individuals in the family.
What is the Genius in Roman religion?
The dining room where people reclined to eat.
What was the triclinium used for?
A Roman fast food shop selling hot food and drinks.
What was a thermopolium in Pompeii?
They could not vote, but could voice their opinions.
What political freedoms did women have?
Pyroclastic surges of hot gas and ash.
What was the primary cause of death for many victims in Pompeii and Herculaneum?
What evidence do we have for animal sacrifice?
A garden courtyard surrounded by columns.
What was the peristylium used for?
An cone-shaped, stone structure rotated to grind wheat.
What was a mill in a bakery?
A highly important and influential public priestess of the Imperial Cult.
Who was Eumachia?
Ash and pumice.
What material buried Pompeii during the eruption?
Typically in the atrium.
Where was the lararium found?
A small bedroom.
What was the cubiculum?
Slaves or donkeys.
How were the mills rotated to grind the wheat?
Her's was the largest tomb in Pompeii, measuring 14m long and 13m deep.
What is significant about Eumachia's tomb?
He was the first archaeologist to begin documenting his findings and methodically excavating remains.
Who was Karl Weber?
Made offerings of cake and incence, and led daily prayers.
What was the role of the paterfamilias in household religion?
An office or study for business meetings of the paterfamilias.
What was the tablinium used for?
Where was the frescoe of the golden loaves found?
They were also known as "lupae" or "she-wolves"
What were female prostitutes known as?
He was a terrible archaeolgist who used cheap, untrained labour to excavate Pompeii.
Who was Roque Joaquin de Alcubierre?