god
Faunus
also: Faunus Lycaeus, Lupercus, horned god
Italian god of the wild, flocks, and prophecy, identified by Ovid with Arcadian Pan; the Lupercalia is his festival.
Reading notes
- The Festivals §2.proem Luperci
The priests of the Lupercalia, who ran through the city striking bystanders with strips of goat-hide as a rite of purification and fertility.
- The Festivals §2.13 Faunus
Italian woodland god of flocks and prophecy, worshipped at the Lupercalia and identified with Arcadian Pan.
- The Festivals §4.15 Maenalian god
Faunus, the prophetic woodland god (linked with Arcadian Maenalus), consulted by Numa in a sacred grove.
- The Festivals §5.proem Faunus
An old Italian woodland god, half-goat, honored at the Lupercalia.
- Metamorphoses §6.138 Faunus
An old Italian woodland god of flocks and fields, identified with the Greek Pan; invoked at the rustic altar in Lycia.