entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 3.39-42 (Cotta's critique of the proliferation of gods including Lares). Attests the philosophical debate about Roman household deities.
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,Lares Compitales appear in Livy in the context of prodigies and festivals; AUC 34.44.8 (compitalia festival). Attests civic role of Lares in the Roman neighborhood system.
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,Fasti 2.599-616: the Fornacalia and Compitalia; the Lares Compitales (Lares of the crossroads) and the household Lares; Ovid explains the origin of the Lares and their role protecting the home and the crossroads; a key text for Roman domestic religion
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation,Varro traces Lares to the souls of the dead; City of God 7.6; the most systematic ancient treatment of Lares theology.
ENT_ROM_LARES,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Lares appear throughout; Aeneid 5.744 (household Lares invoked); the Lares/Penates distinction is foundational to the Aeneid's theology of Roman household religion.