Keep the Lup in Lupercalia (Plus Mark Antony's Sexy, Sexy Thighs)

This month C takes us on a deep dive into the Roman purification and fertility festival of Lupercalia! An oft misunderstood ritual with deep historical meanings, ties to many other cultures, and some truly fascinating origins. Also she tells us all about her historical crush Mark Antony and about Mark Antony's incredible thighs--thighs that saved Cesar's bacon a couple of times and were so famously nice that they're still remembered, and celebrated, to this day. 

Primary Sources:

Livy—Ab urbe condita

Ovid—Fasti, book two

Plutarch—Life of Romulus

Varro—On the Latin Language

Secondary Sources:

Julius Caesar—William Shakespeare

Agnes Kirsopp Michels—the calendar of the Roman Republic

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898

Pat Southern—Mark Antony. Stroud: Tempus Publishing

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/FRALUP/home.html