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La maledizione della sterilità. I Lupercalia come strumento di legittimazione sacrale della politica augustea di incremento demografico
2017
Otium
The Lupercalia was a feast with multiple meanings and its origin was attributed by sources to Romulus and Remus. The ritual of the feast, celebrated on February 15th, consisted in a race during which the luperci whip the infecund women with leather strips of goats to make them fertile. The whippings had a purifying function because the female infertility was attributed to a status of impurity. Afterward the Lupercalia were renewed by Augustus as a part of his policy of religious restoration.
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