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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)]]

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13 sections
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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
  • External links

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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