the lupercalia - classics

• who did this festival honour and why

  • the god lupercus (god of fertility)
  • for the finding of rome
• when did this festival take place

  february 15th every year
• what were the preists called


  luperci
• what did the luperci sacrifice


  dogs and goats
• what was sprinkled on the animals heads

  mola salsa
• what did the haruspex read


  the entrails of the animals to look for positive signs
• what happened during the race


  participants would run around the palatine hill and whipped spectators to grant them fertility