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Lares
Sign in to savethumb|Lar holding a cornucopia from Axatiana (now Lora del Rio) in [[Roman Spain, early first century AD (National Archaeological Museum of Spain)]]
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- Origins and development
- Their domains
- {{lang|la|Lares Praestites}}
- Others
- Domestic Lares
- ''Lararia''{{anchor|Lararium}}
- Compitalia
- Augustan religious reforms
- Origin myths and theology
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|Lar holding a cornucopia from Axatiana (now Lora del Rio) in [[Roman Spain, early first century AD (National Archaeological Museum of Spain)]]
Lares ( , ; archaic , singular ) were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been hero-ancestors, guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries, or fruitfulness, or an amalgam of these.
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