Archaeologists have recently unearthed the remarkably well-preserved remains of a dog from ancient Rome, shedding light on ...

Quite as late as the early seventh century, Saint Gregory I might be confronted by the sight of Italian peasants making their rustic offerings to Ceres or Faunus in the country districts of the ...

He said that “a relationship with ‘purification’ also appears from the practice of sacrificing dogs (and other animals) at the festival of the Lupercalia in honor of Faunus – associated ...

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Lupercalia was dedicated to the Roman god of agriculture, Faunus, and the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. It was celebrated with animal sacrifices and gently slapping women and crop fields ...

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