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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...
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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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    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...
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    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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    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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    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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    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...
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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...
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  • Lepidoptera Family: Depressariidae Genus: Filinota Species: F. ignita Binomial name Filinota ignita (Busck, 1912) Synonyms Lupercalia ignita Busck, 1912...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    Luperci, the priests of Faunus, celebrated certain ceremonies of the Lupercalia at the cave, from the earliest days of the City until at least 494 AD...
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    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....
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    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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    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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    drum skin named bedug in Indonesia. In Roman mythology priests of god Lupercalia wore goatskins. A breed of goat that provides high-quality skin is for...
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  • hardiness Cress Resolution; stability, power Crocus Love, abuse not, Lupercalia; impatience, youthful joy, hope, and friendship in adversity Spring Cheerfulness...
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    Plutarch's Lives. Shakespeare makes Caesar's triumph take place on the day of Lupercalia (15 February) instead of six months earlier. For dramatic effect, he makes...
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  • Valentine" (1995) Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: "Chapter Fourteen: Lupercalia" (2019) Clueless: "Child Bride" (1999) Dawson's Creek: "The Valentine's...
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    Augusto dai "Lupercalia" al Natale. Rome: Laterza. pp. 30–31. Carandini, Andrea; Bruno, Daniela (2008). La casa di Augusto dai "Lupercalia" al Natale....
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  • Date Event February 15 Lupercalia April 30 Hexennacht July 25 Unveiling Day October 31 Halloween December 25 Sol Invictus...
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  • Fourteen: Lupercalia" Salli Richardson-Whitfield Oanh Ly April 5, 2019 (2019-04-05) Sabrina and Nick Scratch take part in the annual Lupercalia holiday...
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  • (precise date unknown), Sementivae (February 2), Februa (February 13–15), Lupercalia (February 13–15), Parentalia (February 13–22), Quirinalia (February 17)...
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    attended by matrons and bakers. Servius claims that during the Vestalia, the Lupercalia and on September 13, the three youngest Vestals reaped unripened far (spelt...
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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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  • for Hecate and other chthonic deities, but was offered publicly at the Lupercalia and two other sacrifices pertaining to grain crops. Like many other aspects...
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    of the moon. Lupercus, god of shepherds and wolves; as the god of the Lupercalia, his identity is obscure, but he is sometimes identified with the Greek...
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    public opinion. The third incident took place at the festival of the Lupercalia, on 15 February 44 BC. Mark Antony, who had been elected co-consul with...
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