Now on eighth day of Saturnalia. The poet Catullus called it “the best of days.” In ancient Rome, private festivities of Saturnalia had expanded to seven days by the late Republic, but during the Imperial period it varied from three to five days. Caligula extended official observances to five. We do ten days in Roma […]
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December 24th, 2015 | Tags: Roma Nova | Category: Roman life, Roman traditions, Saturnalia | Comments are closed Welcome to an unusual stop on the indieBRAG Christmas bloghop! Throughout December, the B.R.A.G.Medallion authors are presenting readers with a seasonal blog tour. In the UK and most of the Western world, we celebrate Christmas on 25 December. But ancient Romans started their festival on 17 December – today! Saturnalia was THE most important […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 16th, 2015 | Tags: blog tour, historical, IndieBRAG, Romans, self-publishing | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Other people's websites/blogs, Roma Nova, Roman life, Roman traditions, Saturnalia | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) 
Helena, mother of Constantine the Great (author photo, Naples Museum) I set out to write a piece about women in the late Roman period – ambitious for a blog post I know, but I thought I could pull some threads out of a big subject and produce a digest. Not that easy, as […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!December 15th, 2015 | Tags: historical, Late Antiquity, Roman Empire, Roman women, Romans, Rome | Category: Research, Roman life, Roman traditions, Women's history | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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