god
The Penates
The household gods of the Roman/family hearth, guardians of home and store; here Achilles' 'father's household gods.'
Reading notes
- The Heroides §3 household gods
The Penates, gods of the family hearth and store; Achilles' 'father's household gods' draw him home.
- The Heroides §7 the Penates
The household gods of Troy that Aeneas carried from the flames; Dido asks whether the sea will now drown them.
- Metamorphoses §1.5 household gods
The Penates, the protective deities of the home and hearth, here buried under Lycaon's collapsing house.
- Metamorphoses §3.57 your exiled household gods
The Penates, the household and state guardian-gods a people carries with it when founding a new home.
- Sorrows §1.3 Penates
The gods of the household stores and hearth, the inner divinities of a Roman family.