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The most prominent and revered of them all were the Lares and Penates.

Every Roman family had a Lar, who was the spirit of an ancestor, and several Penates, gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse.

There were also public Lares and Penates, who did for the city what the others did for the family.

Starting with the mid-19th-century former rectory in which he lives, he introduces us to a universe of fact, anecdote, history and whimsy spun out of the lares and penates around him.

The Penates are one of a growing number of mixed-status families that have been affected by the record number of deportations in recent years.