Like the pale reflection of power thus accorded to bondsmen at the Saturnalia was the mock kingship for which freemen cast lots at the same season. The person on whom the lot fell enjoyed the ...

What is Saturnalia? You may have heard of this Roman holiday, but the details are scant and fragmentary from Roman sources. This video explains what we know about Saturnalia and whether or not it ...

Another ancient festival that was eventually absorbed into Christmas is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia, which was celebrated in honor of the Roman god Saturn. The festivities began on December 17 ...

During the dark days of December, in many schools throughout the Main Line, students will be heard exclaiming the celebratory “IO SATURNALIA!,” a clarion call throughout the centuries of the ...

There were two major pre-Christian festivals of note which roughly coincided with Christmas: the Roman Bacchanalia, or Saturnalia, and the Yule Feast of the Norse countries. The Saturnalia began ...

Coming out vigorously for Government ownership, the committee, headed by Alabama’s Hugo La Fayette Black, declared that private operation with Federal aid “has resulted in a Saturnalia of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For many Aussies, it's a given that Christmas entails a big lunch followed by Christmas pud' and ...

Today is Saturnalia, an ancient Roman holiday with a long tradition here at the Volokh Conspiracy. Admittedly, it's tradition only in so far as I have put up a post about it every December 17 ...

Every year, a week or so before Christmas, Chester's streets are filled with the same sights, sounds and smells that have marked Saturnalia in the city since its days as the Roman city of Deva ...