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Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival and holiday in honour of the god Saturn, held on 17 December in the Julian calendar and later expanded with festivities until 19 December. By the 1st century BC, the celebration had been extended until 23 December, for a total of seven days of festivities. [1]
December 17 – Consecration of the newly constructed Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum, and Saturnalia festival first celebrated. [3] Births. Deaths.
In third-century Rome, its citizens celebrated the winter solstice, the mid-December festival Saturnalia for the god of Saturn and the birthday of the sun god, Sol Invictus, on December 25, per ...
In Rome, this yearly festival was celebrated with thirty chariot races. [45] Gary Forsythe, Professor of Ancient History, says "This celebration would have formed a welcome addition to the seven-day period of the Saturnalia (December 17–23), Rome's most joyous holiday season since Republican times, characterized by parties, banquets, and ...
Question: When did partiers first celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square? Answer: 1904. ... Answer: Saturnalia. Question: In Scottish traditions, who do you kiss at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Saturnalia is a holiday honoring the agricultural god Saturn, and the ancient Romans celebrated not only by drinking, feasting, and gambling but also by relaxing the social norms that governed ...
Macrobius (5th century CE) presents an interpretation of the Saturnalia as a festival of light leading to the winter solstice. [34] [14] (1.1.8–9) The renewal of light and the coming of the new year was celebrated in the later Roman Empire at the Dies Natalis of Sol Invictus, the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun," on December 25. [35]
The festival was also celebrated in parts of Ionia, and in these places the month was called Kronion, named after the festival. [2]: 82 [3]: 385 [b] Scholars usually interpret it as a celebration of the mid-summer (first) harvest. Its Roman equivalent is Saturnalia. [2]: 38