{"id":1185,"date":"2020-06-10T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T10:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colosseum.info\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2020-10-18T03:50:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T03:50:15","slug":"lupercal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colosseum.info\/es\/lupercal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupercal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lupercal<\/h4>\n
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The <\/span>Lupercal<\/b> (from Latin <\/span>lupa<\/span><\/i> “female wolf) was a cave at the southwest foot of the Palatine Hill in located somewhere near the temple of Magna Mater.\u00a0 According to legend this is where <\/span>Romulus and Remus were taken and suckled the she-wolf. Th<\/b>e foundation of Rome is steeped in legend and the difficulty for historians and archaeologists is to try to find evidence to support the past.\u00a0 Whilst to us today the idea of a she-wolf suckling human babies is far-fetched, the Romans clearly believed this myth and kept the \u2018Lupercal\u2019 cave as a sacred shrine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Lupercal Cave was the site of the <\/span>Lupercalia<\/b>, a Roman festival celebrated annually on the 15th of February. The priests of Faunus, known as the <\/span>Luperci<\/i><\/b>, sacrificed animals in the cave, the skins of the slain animals would be made into straps which would be used by the priests who ran through the city of Rome striking those they passed. This appears to have been a fertility ritual, it was thought that being struck with the skin of a goat would help women who were trying to conceive. The Luperci, the priests of Faunus, celebrated ceremonies of the <\/span>Lupercalia <\/b>at the cave, from the earliest days of the City until at least 494 AD.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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