Penates
Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: the Penates who guarded the storeroom (penus) of the innermost part of the house.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in Republican and Imperial eras of Rome.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- lar familiaris, Hercules, Silvanus, Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, stetewalden, Lares Compitalicii, Apollo, Minerva, Jupiter, Aphrodite, Vesta, genius loci, Juno, Genius, Victory, Fortuna, Magna Mater, Mars Camulus, Mare, Alp
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: the Penates who guarded the storeroom (penus) of the innermost part of the house”
#9079 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“References to domestic religious practice often pair the Lares together with the Penates. Penates, although also domestic guardian spirits, were more specifically protectors of the master of the household and his immediate family.”
#10021 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“kobelte is glossed as (i.e., analogized as) the Roman house and hearth deities "Lares" and Penates, as in Trochus (1517), or "kobold" with "Spiritus familiaris" as in Steier (1705).”
#23568 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“offering sacrifice both to Vesta and the household gods of the Roman state known as Penates, whose images were kept in Vesta's temple”
#34685 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5