Editing Faunus (section)

== Conflation with Greek Pan ==
Faunus was naturally conflated with the [[Pan (god)|Greek god Pan]], who was a pastoral god of shepherds who was said to reside in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]. 
With the increasing influence of Greek mythology on Roman mythology in the 3rd and 2nd&nbsp;centuries&nbsp;{{sc|BCE}}, the Romans identified their own deities with Greek ones in what was called ''[[interpretatio Romana]]''.
However, the two deities were also considered separate by many; for instance, the epic poet [[Virgil]], in his ''[[Aeneid]]'', independently mentioned both Faunus and Pan.

Pan had always been [[horned deity|depicted with horns]] whereas the original Roman Faunus was not. An indication of the cultural conflation of the two can be seen in many Roman depictions of Faunus that also began to display Faunus with horns.