Question
Horace Walpole popularized using the names of these two groups of deities as a synonym for household possessions. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two, often interchangeable, groups of household guardian deities. One of these groups guarded the kitchen and storeroom, while another probably represented ancestors more distant than the parentes.
ANSWER: lares and penates (“LAH-rayss and peh-NAH-tayss”) [accept in either order; accept panes or penetrales or Di Penates for penates; accept lases for lares]
[10e] This deity was worshiped alongside the lares and penates (“LAH-rayss and peh-NAH-tayss”), and was sometimes considered one of the penates. Virgins dedicated to this Roman counterpart of Hestia tended a sacred hearth.
ANSWER: Vesta
[10m] Another group of deities mixed in with the lares and penates were these ancestor deities. Roman tombstones traditionally had an inscription marked as being to these underworld deities, represented by the letters D and M.
ANSWER: Manes [accept Di Manes or Dis Manibus]
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Summary
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