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Lupercalia, also known as Lupercal, was a pastoral festival of Ancient Rome observed annually on February 15 to purify the city, promoting health and fertility. [1] Lupercalia was also known as dies Februatus , after the purification instruments called februa , the basis for the month named Februarius .
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Lupercalia is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released on 20 June 2011 [15] by Hideout, a subsidiary of Mercury Records. [16]
Adriano La Regina (formerly Rome's archaeological superintendent 1976–2004, professor of Etruscology at Sapienza University of Rome), [7] Professor Fausto Zevi (professor of Roman Archaeology at Rome's La Sapienza University) [8] and Professor Henner von Hesberg (head of the German Archaeological Institute, Rome) [9] denied the identification of the grotto with Lupercal on topographic and ...
His sanctuary was the Lupercal, where she-wolf took care of Romulus and Remus; [2] this is why Lupercalia was a celebration that helped pregnant women. [citation needed] Lupercus is sometimes identified with the god Pan in Greek mythology. [1] The Roman god Faunus is a variation of Lupercus, also linked to the festival of Lupercalia. [3]
15: Lupercalia; 17: last day of the feriae conceptivae Fornacalia, the Oven Festival; Quirinalia, in honour of Quirinus; 21: Feralia, the only public observation of the Parentalia, marked F (dies festus) in some calendars and FP (a designation of uncertain meaning) in others, with dark rites aimed at the gods below
A festival said to be of Juno Februata or Juno Februa, though it does not appear in Ovid's Fasti, was described by Alban Butler, famous as the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, who presented an aspect of the Roman Lupercalia as a festival of a "Juno Februata", under the heading of February 14:
Evander from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum. In Roman mythology, Evander (from Greek Εὔανδρος meaning "good man" or "strong man": an etymology used by poets to emphasize the hero's virtue) [1] was a culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who was said to have brought the pantheon, laws, and alphabet of Greece to ancient Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of ...