Lares, the Glossary
Lares (archaic lasēs, singular) were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion.[1]
Table of Contents
97 relations: Actium, Alba Longa, Apollo, Apuleius, Arnobius, Arval Brethren, Augustus, Carmen Arvale, Castor and Pollux, Cavaedium, Chthonic, Cisalpine Gaul, Compitalia, Curia, Daimon, Dea Tacita, Di inferi, Di Penates, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Domus, Etruscan civilization, Etruscan language, Eudaemon (mythology), Feralia, Genius (mythology), Gens, Granius Flaccus, Greek hero cult, Hercules, Hero, Heroön, House of Menander, House of the Vettii, Household deity, Jörg Rüpke, Juno (mythology), Larentalia, Lares Familiares, Larunda, Lemures, Lemuria (festival), Lictor, List of Roman deities, Lucius Cassius Hemina, Lucius Junius Brutus, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Macrobius, Manes, Mania (deity), Marcus Marius Gratidianus, ... Expand index (47 more) »
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Actium
Actium or Aktion (Ἄκτιον) was a town on a promontory in ancient Acarnania at the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf, off which Octavian gained his celebrated victory, the Battle of Actium, over Antony and Cleopatra, on September 2, 31 BCE.
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Alba Longa
Alba Longa (occasionally written Albalonga in Italian sources) was an ancient Latin city in Central Italy in the vicinity of Lake Albano in the Alban Hills.
Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
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Apuleius
Apuleius (also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.
Arnobius
Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).
Arval Brethren
In ancient Roman religion, the Arval Brethren (Fratres Arvales, "Brothers of the Fields") or Arval Brothers were a body of priests who offered annual sacrifices to the Lares and gods to guarantee good harvests.
Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Carmen Arvale
The Carmen Arvale is the preserved chant of the Arval priests or ''Fratres Arvales'' of ancient Rome.
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces) are twin half-brothers in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as the Dioscuri or Dioskouroi.
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Cavaedium
Cavaedium or atrium are Latin names for the principal room of an ancient Roman house, which usually had a central opening in the roof (compluvium) and a rainwater pool (impluvium) beneath it.
Chthonic
The word chthonic, or chthonian, is derived from the Ancient Greek word χθών, "khthon", meaning earth or soil.
Cisalpine Gaul
Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina, also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata) was the name given, especially during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, to a region of land inhabited by Celts (Gauls), corresponding to what is now most of northern Italy.
Compitalia
The Compitalia (Ludi Compitalicii) was an annual festival in ancient Roman religion held in honor of the Lares Compitales, household deities of the crossroads, to whom sacrifices were offered at the places where two or more ways met.
Curia
Curia (curiae) in ancient Rome referred to one of the original groupings of the citizenry, eventually numbering 30, and later every Roman citizen was presumed to belong to one.
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Daimon
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.
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Dea Tacita
In Roman mythology, Dea Tacita ("the silent goddess") also known as Dea Muta or Muta Tacita, was a goddess of the dead.
Di inferi
The di inferi or dii inferi (Latin, "the gods below") were a shadowy collective of ancient Roman deities associated with death and the underworld. Lares and di inferi are Roman deities.
Di Penates
In ancient Roman religion, the Di Penates or Penates were among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals. Lares and di Penates are household deities, Roman deities and tutelary deities.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ἈλεξάνδρουἉλικαρνασσεύς,; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus.
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Domus
In ancient Rome, the domus (domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras.
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Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
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Etruscan language
Etruscan was the language of the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria, in Etruria Padana and Etruria Campana in what is now Italy.
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Eudaemon (mythology)
The eudaemon, eudaimon, or eudemon (εὐδαίμων) in Greek mythology was a type of daemon or genius (deity), which in turn was a kind of spirit.
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Feralia
Ferālia was an ancient Roman public festivalDumézil, Georges.
Genius (mythology)
In Roman religion, the genius (genii) is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing. Lares and genius (mythology) are Roman deities and tutelary deities.
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Gens
In ancient Rome, a gens (or,;: gentes) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same ''nomen gentilicium'' and who claimed descent from a common ancestor.
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Granius Flaccus
Granius Flaccus (fl. 1st century BC) was an antiquarian and scholar of Roman law and religion, probably in the time of Julius Caesar and Augustus.
Greek hero cult
Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.
Hercules
Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena.
Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
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Heroön
A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (pl.), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero.
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House of Menander
The House of Menander (Italian: Casa del Menandro) is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents, and covers a large area of about occupying most of its insula.
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House of the Vettii
The House of the Vettii is a domus located in the Roman town Pompeii, which was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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Household deity
A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. Lares and household deity are household deities, Roman deities and tutelary deities.
Jörg Rüpke
Jörg Rüpke (born 27 December 1962 in Herford, West Germany) is a German scholar of comparative religion and classical philology, recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize in 2008, and of the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2011.
Juno (mythology)
Juno (Latin Iūnō) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state. Lares and Juno (mythology) are tutelary deities.
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Larentalia
The Roman festival of Larentalia was held on 23 December but was ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus; by some supposed to be in honour of the Lares, a kind of domestic genii, or divinities, worshipped in houses, and esteemed the guardians and protectors of families, supposed to reside in chimney-corners.
Lares Familiares
Lares Familiares are guardian household deities and tutelary deities in ancient Roman religion. Lares and Lares Familiares are household deities, Roman deities and tutelary deities.
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Larunda
Larunda (also Larunde, Laranda, Lara) was a naiad nymph, daughter of the river Almo and mother of the Lares Compitalici, guardians of the crossroads and the city of Rome.
Lemures
The were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead in Roman religion, and are probably cognate with an extended sense of (from Latin, 'mask') as disturbing or frightening.
Lemuria (festival)
The Lemuralia or Lemuria was an annual event in the religion of ancient Rome, during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise any malevolent and fearful ghosts of the restless dead from their homes.
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Lictor
A lictor (possibly from Latin ligare, meaning 'to bind') was a Roman civil servant who was an attendant and bodyguard to a magistrate who held imperium.
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List of Roman deities
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts (see interpretatio graeca), integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices, into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Empire.
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Lucius Cassius Hemina
Lucius Cassius Hemina (2nd centuryBC) was a Roman historian.
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Lucius Junius Brutus
Lucius Junius Brutus (6th century BC) was the semi-legendary founder of the Roman Republic, and traditionally one of its first consuls in 509 BC.
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Lucius Tarquinius Priscus
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, or Tarquin the Elder, was the legendary fifth king of Rome and first of its Etruscan dynasty.
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Macrobius
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, usually referred to as Macrobius (fl. AD 400), was a Roman provincial who lived during the early fifth century, during late antiquity, the period of time corresponding to the Later Roman Empire, and when Latin was as widespread as Greek among the elite.
Manes
In ancient Roman religion, the Manes or Di Manes are chthonic deities sometimes thought to represent souls of deceased loved ones.
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Mania (deity)
In ancient Etruscan and Roman mythology, Mania (𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌌), also spelled Manea, was a goddess of the dead, spirits and chaos: she was said to be the mother of ghosts, the undead, and other spirits of the night, as well as the Lares and the Manes.
Marcus Marius Gratidianus
Marcus Marius Gratidianus (c. 125 – 82 BC) was a Roman praetor and supporter of Gaius Marius during the civil war between the followers of Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author.
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Mars (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Mars (Mārs) is the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. Lares and Mars (mythology) are tutelary deities.
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Mary Beard (classicist)
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome.
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Menander
Menander (Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy.
Mercury (mythology)
Mercury (Mercurius) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the 12 Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon.
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Mos maiorum
The mos maiorum ("ancestral custom" or "way of the ancestors";: mores, cf. English "mores"; maiorum is the genitive plural of "greater" or "elder") is the unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms.
Mother of the Lares
The Mother of the Lares (Latin Mater Larum) has been identified with any of several minor Roman deities.
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Nymph
A nymph (νύμφη|nýmphē;; sometimes spelled nymphe) is a minor female nature deity in ancient Greek folklore.
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Parentalia
In ancient Rome, the Parentalia or dies parentales ("ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honour of family ancestors, beginning on 13 February.
Pater familias
The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (patres familias), was the head of a Roman family.
Patera
In the material culture of classical antiquity, a patera or phiale is a shallow ceramic or metal libation bowl.
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Patronage in ancient Rome
Patronage (clientela) was the distinctive relationship in ancient Roman society between the patronus ('patron') and their cliens ('client').
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Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire
Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), when he destroyed a pagan temple for the purpose of constructing a Christian church.
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Persius
Aulus Persius Flaccus (4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
Plebeians
In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words "commoners".
Pomerium
The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome.
Princeps
Princeps (plural: principes) is a Latin word meaning "first in time or order; the first, foremost, chief, the most eminent, distinguished, or noble; the first person".
Propertius
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
Psychopomp
Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)
Publius Decius Mus, son of Quintus, of the plebeian gens Decia, was a Roman consul in 340 BC.
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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.
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Regia
The Regia ("Royal house") was a two-part structure in Ancient Rome lying along the Via Sacra at the edge of the Roman Forum that originally served as the residence or one of the main headquarters of kings of Rome and later as the office of the pontifex maximus, the highest religious official of Rome.
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Religion in ancient Rome
Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule.
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Rhyton
A rhyton (rhytons or, following the Greek plural, rhyta) is a roughly conical container from which fluids were intended to be drunk or to be poured in some ceremony such as libation, or merely at table.
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Roman imperial cult
The Roman imperial cult (cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas) of the Roman State.
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Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
Romulus and Remus
In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of Remus.
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Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century) was a Roman Imperial poet, best known for his Latin poem, De reditu suo, in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 417.
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Sabines
The Sabines (Sabini; Sabini—all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.
Sacellum
In ancient Roman religion, a sacellum is a small shrine.
Saturnalia
Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December of the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities through 19 December.
Servius Tullius
Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, and the second of its Etruscan dynasty.
Sextus Pompeius Festus
Sextus Pompeius Festus, usually known simply as Festus, was a Roman grammarian who probably flourished in the later 2nd century AD, perhaps at Narbo (Narbonne) in Gaul.
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Spelt
Spelt (Triticum spelta), also known as dinkel wheat or hulled wheat, is a species of wheat that has been cultivated since approximately 5000 BCE.
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Spirit house
A spirit house is a shrine to the protective spirit of a place that is found in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Lares and spirit house are tutelary deities.
Stata Mater
In ancient Roman religion, Stata Mater ("Mother who stops or stabilizes") was a compital goddess who protected against fires.
T. P. Wiseman
Timothy Peter Wiseman (born 3 February 1940), who usually publishes as T. P.
Tarquinia
Tarquinia, formerly Corneto, is an old city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Central Italy, known chiefly for its ancient Etruscan tombs in the widespread necropoleis, or cemeteries, for which it was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status.
Terra (mythology)
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth.
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Tibullus
Albius Tibullus (BC BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.
Toga
The toga, a distinctive garment of ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
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Tomb of the Leopards
The Tomb of the Leopards (Italian: Tomba dei leopardi) is an Etruscan burial chamber so called for the confronted leopards painted above a banquet scene.
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Turan (mythology)
Turan was the Etruscan goddess of love, fertility and vitality and patroness of the city of Velch.
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Vicus
In Ancient Rome, the Latin term vicus (plural vici) designated a village within a rural area (pagus) or the neighbourhood of a larger settlement.
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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14 regions of Augustan Rome
In 7 BC, Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 administrative regions (Latin regiones, regio).
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See also
Roman deities
- Agdistis
- Anthelioi
- Capitoline Triad
- Deus
- Di Penates
- Di indigetes
- Di inferi
- Dii Consentes
- Dii Familiaris
- Domiduca
- Febris
- Genius (mythology)
- Genius loci
- Household deity
- Indigitamenta
- Lares
- Lares Familiares
- List of Roman agricultural deities
- List of Roman birth and childhood deities
- Novensiles
- Pales
- Phthisis (mythology)
- Roman goddesses
- Roman gods
- Salus
- Sentinus deus
- Virtus (deity)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lares
Also known as Lararia, Lararium, Lares (Roman deities), Lares Praestites, Lares and penates, Lases.
, Marcus Terentius Varro, Mars (mythology), Mary Beard (classicist), Menander, Mercury (mythology), Mos maiorum, Mother of the Lares, Nymph, Parentalia, Pater familias, Patera, Patronage in ancient Rome, Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, Persius, Plautus, Plebeians, Pomerium, Princeps, Propertius, Psychopomp, Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC), Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Regia, Religion in ancient Rome, Rhyton, Roman imperial cult, Roman province, Romulus and Remus, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Sabines, Sacellum, Saturnalia, Servius Tullius, Sextus Pompeius Festus, Spelt, Spirit house, Stata Mater, T. P. Wiseman, Tarquinia, Terra (mythology), Tibullus, Toga, Tomb of the Leopards, Turan (mythology), Vicus, Virgil, 14 regions of Augustan Rome.