-
suggested that
Faunus is
identical with Favonius,[better source needed] one of the
Roman wind gods (compare the Anemoi). The name
Faunus is
generally thought...
- wife, sister, or
daughter of
Faunus (the
Roman counterpart of Pan).
Varro regarded her as the
female counterpart of
Faunus, and said that the
fauni all...
-
lesser versions of
their chief, the god
Faunus.
Before their conflation with Gr**** satyrs, they and
Faunus were
represented as
naked men (e.g. the Barberini...
- spring. In
Roman religion and myth, Pan was
frequently identified with
Faunus, a
nature god who was the
father of Bona Dea,
sometimes identified as Fauna;...
-
Faunus ater is a
species of
brackish water snail with an operculum, an
aquatic gastropod mollusk in the
family Pachychilidae.
Faunus ater is the only species...
- the Lupercalia.
Rutilius Namati****
offers a
similar verbal play,
Faunus init ("
Faunus enters"), in
pointing out a
statue depicting the god at
Castrum Inui...
-
Polygonia faunus, the
green comma, is a
butterfly of the
family Nymphalidae.
Subspecies include:
Polygonia faunus smythi Polygonia faunus faunus Polygonia...
- The
Temple of
Faunus (Latin:
aedes Fauni) was an
ancient Roman temple on the
southern end of the
Tiber Island in Rome,
dedicated to
Faunus, the god of flocks...
-
occurred at
about the same time as Lupercalia, a
Roman festival in
honor of
Faunus and also the wolf who
nursed Romulus and Remus,
during which expiatory sacrifices...
-
until they were
rescued by the
shepherd Faustulus. Luperci, the
priests of
Faunus,
celebrated certain ceremonies of the
Lupercalia at the cave, from the earliest...
