This article reevaluates previously held assumptions that the atrium house was the
primary setting for Pauline house churches, and includes insulae in the
discussion. There were massive social contrasts within Roman domus, so that
many rich and poor lived in the same domestic spaces. Meggitt’s argument
that 1 percent lived totally different lives than the other 99 percent was not the
case in Pompeii. Both domus and insulae (apartment buildings) often
incorporated shops, again relating owners and slaves to the same spaces. Women owned
some domus, the foreign goddess Isis was influential in some wealthy
Pompeiian domus, and many owners displayed gorgons to ward off evil influences.
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