. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Head of Janus. (From a Roman coin.) 3o ROME AS A KINGDOM. Mars. They proved themselves worthy offspring of thewar-god. Martial games and festivals were celebrated inhis honor during the first month of the Roman year, which bore, and stillbears, in his honor,the name of March. Janus was a double-faced deity, the godof the beginning andthe end of every-thing. The monthof January was sacredto him, as were alsoall gates and gates of his tem-ple were always keptopen in time of warand shut in time ofpeace. The fire upo
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. Head of Janus. (From a Roman coin.) 3o ROME AS A KINGDOM. Mars. They proved themselves worthy offspring of thewar-god. Martial games and festivals were celebrated inhis honor during the first month of the Roman year, which bore, and stillbears, in his honor,the name of March. Janus was a double-faced deity, the godof the beginning andthe end of every-thing. The monthof January was sacredto him, as were alsoall gates and gates of his tem-ple were always keptopen in time of warand shut in time ofpeace. The fire upon thehousehold hearth wasregarded as the sym-bol of the goddessVesta. Her worship was a favorite one with the RomansThe nation, too, as a single great family, had a commonnational hearth, in the Temple of Vesta, where the sacredhres were kept burning from generation to generation bysix virgins, daughters of the Roman lit UH \ ° ^ ^ r6Cent exCavatio-> ?* Sudanis AncientRome tn the Light of Recent Discoveries, chap, vi,. Vestal Virgin. THE ROMAN RELIGION. 31 The Lares and Penates were household gods. Theirimages were set in the entrance of the dwelling. TheLares were the spirits of ancestors, which were thought tolinger about the home as its guardians. This worship of ancestors was one of the most importantelements in the religion of the ancient Romans. It wasthis religion of the domestic hearth that helped greatly to
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