The gifts could be perishable goods, such as food and drink, or non-perishable goods.īy the middle of the 300s, the Christians had appropriated many of the customs. Gifts were sent by customers and clients to their patrons at Saturnalia. Small dolls made of porcelain or clay were given to children. People would give each other candles ( cerei) as gifts, likely as cheering then as they are now at the darkest time of year. It addition to the fun and freedom, it was also a time of gift-giving. (The exact dates shifted about a bit until Julius Caesar fixed the calendar, creating the “Julian” calendar.)Īugustus made attempts to reduce the holiday period back to three days Caligula tried to reduce it back to five days, but even that didn’t really work. With the feast for his wife Ops, though, falling two days later on 19 December, the two soon blended to become three days, and before you knew it, it was a whole week. It was originally celebrated just one day, to honour Saturn. In our modern Gregorian calendar, the start of the Roman holiday of Saturnalia now falls on 17th December. Unsurprisingly, it also became a time for expressing political satire at plays. Take advantage of the freedoms December allows,Īs our ancestors intended.” - Horace, Satires 2.7.4-5 You’ll also be among the first to know about news and book progress before everybody else, and take part in giveaways.Saturnalia by Antoine-François Callet / wikimedia / 1783 / CC0 1.0īy tradition, it became as well a period during which you could say what you wanted without fear of punishment. The Roman poet Horace says to his slave: Double Pursuit, the sequel, is now out!ĭownload ‘ Welcome to Alison Morton’s Thriller Worlds’, a FREE eBook, as a thank you gift when you sign up to Alison’s monthly email newsletter. ![]() Double Identity, a contemporary conspiracy, starts a new series of thrillers. Audiobooks are available for four of the series. You can read the short story ‘ Saturnalia Surprise‘ about how the Mitelae were surprised one year in ROMA NOVA EXTRA.īuy the book from Amazon Kobo Apple B&N Nook PaperbackĪlison Morton is the author of Roma Nova thrillers – INCEPTIO, CARINA (novella), PERFIDITAS, SUCCESSIO, AURELIA, NEXUS (novella), INSURRECTIO and RETALIO, and ROMA NOVA EXTRA, a collection of short stories. Or were the paintings and stories just a reflection of the artists’ vivid imaginations of the in their own time? Just how wild was it? This painting by Callet is one of the less explicit images, but while the party-goers are having a good time, it seems more in line with what it could have been like than the bacchanalian depictions by some painters then and film-makers now. Writing in an alternat(iv)e history settingĮver since the end of the Roman Empire, but especially when Roman texts were rediscovered and all things Roman became fashionable again from the Renaissance onwards, people have speculated about what Saturnalia really looked like.Claudia Dixit’s tourist guide to Roma Nova.The 500 Word Writing Buddy: 35 Inner Secrets for the New Writer.First glimpse: Carina and Conrad’s Roman Holiday.First glimpse: The Girl from the Market.Independent reviews for Double Identity.The Big Thrill feature on Double Identity.
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