
Episode CIX - Saturnalia
Emperors of Rome
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How Did We Celebrate Saturnalia?
There's a theory that dickens can hav invented christmas, isn't thesyes? So this might be a circular argument. And who knows, if the stuff that we're going to discuss in this podcast, about how saturnalia was celebrated, is typical for actual saturnalia. We've got much from marshall. You can se together. Ye ain lucian, who's a second century satirist writing in greek, also wrote a text called saturnalia,. which is a sort of fantasy about cronos, the greek equivalent, talking to his priest.
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