| Continuity of the religion of the Latin agricultural family. What the
family was; its relation to the gens. The familia as settled on
the land, an economic unit, embodied in a pagus. The house as
the religious centre of the familia; its holy places. Vesta,
Penates, Genius, and the spirit of the doorway. The Lar
familiaris on the land. Festival of the Lar belongs to the
religion of the pagus: other festivals of the pagus. Religio
terminorum. Religion of the household: marriage, childbirth,
burial and cult of the dead
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