Ancient pastoral annual festival celebrated in the city of Rome on February 15th
Not to be confused with the Lupercal cave.For the saint by the name 'Lupercus', see Marcellus of Tangier. For the Patrick Wolf album, see Lupercalia (album).
Lupercalia
Lupercalia, oil painting, circa 1635
Observed by
Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, Roman Empire
Type
Classical Roman religion
Celebrations
feasting
Observances
sacrifices of goats and a dog by the Luperci; offering of cakes by the Vestals; fertility rite in which the goatskin-clad Luperci strike women who wish to conceive
Date
February 15
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.
^One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lupercalia". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 126.
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...
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sole source for identifying Inuus as the form of Faunus for whom the Lupercalia was celebrated: "naked young men would run around venerating Lycaean Pan...
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certainly not introduced by Pope Gelasius to suppress the excesses of the Lupercalia," (referencing J.P. Migne, Missale Gothicum, 691) The 1911 Encyclopædia...
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Adonia/Rosalia Dionysia/Bacchanalia Floralia Kronia/Saturnalia Lemuralia Lykaia/Lupercalia Parentalia Vestalia Vinalia In the order of the Wheel of the Year: Samhain/Halloween...
Augusto dai "Lupercalia" al Natale. Rome: Laterza. pp. 30–31. Carandini, Andrea; Bruno, Daniela (2008). La casa di Augusto dai "Lupercalia" al Natale....
Palatine. The Palatine Hill was also the site of the ancient festival of the Lupercalia. Many affluent Romans of the Republican period (c. 509 BC – 44 BC) had...
Cleopatra's presence in Rome most likely had an effect on the events at the Lupercalia festival a month before Caesar's assassination. Antony attempted to place...
98 (1): 89–109. Retrieved 14 December 2016. Tennant, PMW (1988). "The Lupercalia and the Romulus and Remus Legend" (PDF). Acta Classical. XXXI: 81–93....
of the matter to Caesar. Soon after they assumed office together, the Lupercalia was held on 15 February 44 BC. The festival was held in honor of Lupa...
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month. These purification activities occurred at about the same time as Lupercalia, a Roman festival in honor of Faunus and also the wolf who nursed Romulus...
dictatorship, he publicly rejected a diadem from Antony at celebrations for the Lupercalia. Interpretations of the episode vary: he may have been rejecting the diadem...
in Melbourne's Pentridge Prison. During the Ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, young men ran through the streets with thongs cut from the hide of goats...
sixty years before the Trojan War. He instituted the festival of the Lupercalia. Evander was deified after his death and an altar was constructed to him...
calendars, festivals that appear in large capital letters (such as the Lupercalia and Parilia) are thought to have been the most ancient holidays, becoming...
(1): 89–109, retrieved 14 December 2016 Tennant, P. M. W. (1988). "The Lupercalia and the Romulus and Remus Legend" (PDF). Acta Classica. XXXI: 81–93. ISSN 0065-1141...
Forum Boarium, and, so the legend went, he was the first to celebrate the Lupercalia, an archaic festival in February that was celebrated as late as the 5th...
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