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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Lupercalia is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released on 20 June 2011 by Hideout, a subsidiary of Mercury Records. Formerly...
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century, some seven hundred years after celebration of Lupercalia is believed to have ceased. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. The more...
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She-wolf (Roman mythology) (section Lupercalia)
ongoing debate about a connection to the ancient Roman festival of the Lupercalia. In Greek mythology, Apollo's mother Leto is reported to have given birth...
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Inuus (section Lupercalia)
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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Lupercus (mythology) (category Lupercalia)
animals. Every year on 15 February in honor of him, the Romans held the Lupercalia. He was an ancient Italian god, worshipped by shepherds as the promoter...
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in 541 before slowly spreading west. The ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia in mid-February, in honor of Lupercus, the god of fertility and shepherds...
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Pope Gelasius I (section Suppression of the Lupercalia)
contest Gelasius finally suppressed the ancient Roman festival of the Lupercalia, which had persisted for several generations among a nominally Christian...
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Patrick Wolf (section The Bachelor and Lupercalia)
Hideout, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, which released his fifth album, Lupercalia. The final title was announced via Twitter on 23 December 2010.[non-primary...
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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...
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