Favnos - Carbon on canvas

Original signed painting by Aristi, featured in our Art Gallery. Aristi graduated with BA (Hons) from the University of Bolton (UK) School of Fine Arts and is now attending postgraduate Master studies in Museology at the University of Ulster (Ireland).

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Favnos (in Greek) or Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities, known as the "di indigetes", and according to the epic poet Virgil, he was a legendary king of the Latins, who came with his people from Arcadia, and whose shade was consulted as a god of prophecy, under the name of Fatuus, with oracles in the sacred grove of Tibur, around the well Albunea, and on the Aventine Hill in ancient Rome itself.

With the increasing Hellenization of literate upper-class Roman culture in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the Romans tried to equate their own deities with one of the Greeks', applying in reverse the Greeks' own "interpretatio graeca". Faunus was naturally equated with the god Pan, who was a pastoral god of shepherds who was said to reside in Arcadia. Pan had always been depicted with horns and as such many depictions of Faunus also began to display this trait. However, the two deities were also considered separate by many, for instance, the epic poet Virgil, in his Aeneid, made mention of both Faunus and Pan independently.

Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faunus

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