festival key words- lupercalia Flashcards

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lupercalia

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festival to promote fertility, February 15th

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lupercal

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cave on Palatine Hill in Rome where Romulus and remus were looked after by she wolf

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lupercus

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Roman god of fertility and purification, honoured at festival

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luperci

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priests. chosen y noble men. sacrificed dogs and goats to lupercus

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Palentine Hill

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location of race- runners covered by animal skin strips, whipping by standers with strips of animal skin to promote fertility

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