Wikipedia's article on the Parilia is a community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication. It is reliable for a general overview of the festival's date, dedication to Pales and traditional observances, and less reliable for evaluating scholarly debate over its precise ritual origins. Use it for basic identification; a claim needing deeper classical scholarship needs a dedicated source.
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Reliability TierWikipedia's article on the Parilia, the ancient Roman festival of Pales honoring shepherds and flocks, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview of the festival's observance rather than a substitute for a dedicated study of Roman religious calendar practice. NotesCrowd-sourced tertiary reference. Used here only for the plain, checkable facts that the Parilia was an older pastoral festival honoring Pales celebrated on April 21, that Varro's reconstructed founding date for Rome fell on the same day, and that modern Rome continues to mark April 21 as Natale di Roma. 1 Citation
Publication Year URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parilia 1 Sources
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