El culto a los «di Manes»

In ancient Rome the ancestors, as well as keeping alive the memory of the dead among the family, were really impor tant. This was expressed through private religión, on the one hand at the home, where we find the portraits of the ancestors always present in the life of the romans, and on the other in the necropolis turned into true cities where the tombs and the inscriptions that they accompanied them were a form of commemoration to those who remained entombed there. Busy places where you can pay homage with regular offerings to the dead. The deceased became a kind of divinities or family spirits called Manes, who protected their families in Exchange for not falling into oblivion. Thus, cult of the dead was instituted, full of ceremonies, festivals, ritual sacrifices and offerings. With this work we will give an overview of death in ancient Rome based on the cult of the Manes gods, trying to investigate their origin and the importance they had within the Roman world.