At home with the Lares: Lived religion rematerialised at Pompeii

This article posits that Pompeian religious knowledge which characterised Lares and serpents as gods of place was a consequence lived religion. It argues this arose from personal experiences agency it produced during encounters with these deities in different material locational contexts, namely household kitchen shrines street-corner altars. suggests because the unique ways ritual caused humans to assemble mutually affective qualities available particular they were grounded ritualised actions incorporating immediate world, rather than involving purely cognitive or pre-existing intellectual understandings beliefs. Adopting broadly posthumanist position combines elements religion religion, essay therefore highlights how at Pompeii product relationships between human more-than-human things (e.g. places, objects, divinity). Applying concepts ancient for first time, discussion demonstrates proximal forms concerning communal effectively substantiated them place.