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Festivals in Ancient Rome include religious feasts, normal games and political activities. The most important festivals were the Saturnalia, the Bacchanalia, the Lupercalia and the Bona Dea rites. History - Ancient history - Ancient Rome This is a List of Ancient Rome-related topics, that aims to include aspects of both the Ancient Roman Republic and Roman Empire. ... This article is about the Roman winter solstice festival. ... The Bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus. ... The Lupercalia was an annual Roman festival held on February 15 to honour Faunus, god of fertility and forests. ... In Roman mythology, Bona Dea (the good goddess) was a goddess of fertility, healing, virginity and women. ...
The list below is organized by date. Some of these festivals were instituted in different eras. When possible, the initial date is stated.
January 1 – The new consuls, elected on December, entered office
Roman mythology is the set of beliefs, rituals, and other observances concerning the supernatural held or practiced by the ancient Romans from early periods until Christianity finally completely supplanted the native religions of the Roman Empire.
The original religion of the early Romans was so modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of Greek mythology, that it cannot be reconstructed precisely.
The festival was celebrated on February 15 at the cave of the Lupercal on the Palatine Hill, where the legendary founders of Rome, the twins Romulus and Remus, were supposed to have been nursed by a wolf.
Roman Mythology, body of religious and historical beliefs, and attendant rituals and other observances, held or practised by the ancient Romans from the legendary foundation of Rome in the 8th century bc (see Kings of Rome) until Christianity finally supplanted the native religions of the Roman Empire in the 4th century ad.
The indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state, and their names and nature are indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar; 30 such gods were honoured with special festivals.
Early Roman cult was not so much polytheism as polydemonism: the worshippers’ concepts of the invoked beings consisted of little more than their names and functions, and the being’s numen, or power, manifested itself in highly specialized ways.
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