[1] Macrobius records that offerings were made to her ut annare perannareque commode liceat, i.e., "that the circle of the year may be completed happily"[1] and that people sacrificed to her both publicly and privately.

[3] Ovid in his Fasti (3.523) provides a vivid description of her outdoor festival: On the Ides is held the jovial feast of Anna Perenna not far from the banks, O Tiber, who comest from afar.

[5] After Dido's tragic death, Anna finds refuge from her brother Pygmalion on Malta, with Battus, the king of the island and a wealthy host.

[5] Upon protecting Anna for three years, Battus counselled her to flee for her safety and find a fresh place of exile as her brother was seeking war.

In the 1930s Franz Altheim, an authority on Roman religion,[6] suggested that Anna Perenna was originally an Etruscan mother goddess, and that her relationship with Aeneas was developed to strengthen her association with Rome.