Saturnalia was around the 23rd of December. It's about the shortest day of the year, isn't it? So I think the solstice is around 21st, 22nd. There was a kind of chaotic, you're saying that slave would be appointed a kind of temporary king as like an inversion of the normal order. That's what we're supposed to feel at the darkest day of theyear. Exactly right.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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