Macrobius on the date of Saturnalia
December 17th, 2012 by Roger Pearse
Today is the first day of Saturnalia, the Roman winter festival which lasted from 17-23rd December. In honour of the day, I thought that I would collect what the 5th century writer Macrobius has to say about the date, in book 1 of his book, Saturnalia. I have added additional paragraphing, to make it easier [...]