The 22nd February saw Pompeii celebrate the Caristia, a festival dedicated to family love which was
The 22nd February saw Pompeii celebrate the Caristia, a festival dedicated to family love which was characterised by banquets and exchanges of small gifts (such as wine, bread, modest sums of money and tokens known as ‘sportulae’). Families gathered together to dine together and offer incense, flowers and fruit to the Lares, household deities who protected the house and to whom domestic shrines were dedicated in the atrium, in the garden and even in the house kitchen. A true moment of reconciliation and recognition of family lineage!In the photograph: Lararium of the House of Menander (source: Pompeii - Parco Archeologico) -- source link
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