ritual

Lupercalia

Rituals

A named Roman mid-February fertility and purification festival of the Luperci. Not Valentine’s Day alone, not Saturnalia, and not a bare wolf dump.

Also known as Lupercal · Roman Lupercalia

Roman religion

  • Lupercalia appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 8 seats Evander’s tour of the Lupercal and Arcadian Lupercus rite etiology on the future Palatine. Lupercalia as the published rite id for that Lupercal cult speech, not a February-calendar invent beyond what the epic etiologizes.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.