CLST 103 Lecture 8: CLST 103 W3L8

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

Romans are good at being clear about what the principles that are expected to be followed in society. Clients coming into house able to see them, have ceremonies associated with images of ancestros honouring them on a regular basis: lares; penates. Look like temples, just insets into the wall, place where set up cult figures of ancestors, two of those cult figures are the lares and. Penates: together look after the family and its possessions, everything it owns, all of supplies necessary to keep it functioning. They receive offerings every day pouring wine, offering honey in the shrines and person who oversees this daily offering is the paterfamilias. Just as head of household is working for wellbeing of family, also have family working to: genius. Gods worshipped at several different levels of roman society. Household (paterfamilias: both concerned with social entity of these. Individual looking after well being of certain person, not worrying about others.