Roman Festivals

The Lupercalia

Origins of the festival- it was a festival of purification and fertility in honour fo the god lupercus. it was a wolfy fesitval and also honoured romulus. it happened on feb 15th.

officials- they were creatively called luperci (basically of lupercus </3) and were from the rich male population 

the programme- so the lupercali gathered in the lupercal, the cave where the wold suckled romulus + remus. 
in the cave was an altar to lupercus. they luperci went into 2 teams, did a sacrifice and the teams did a race around…