Vesta was an ancient Roman goddess of the domestic and civic hearth whose annual festival, the Vestalia, was celebrated in...
Ancient Rome
The Floralia was a festival in ancient Rome in honor of the goddess Flora, held April 27 during the Republican...
Robigalia were the feasts dedicated to the god Rubigus so that the wheat did not ripen too early, exposing it...
The Cerealia was one of the most important festivals in Rome. It was held for seven days from mid- to...
On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general dedicated to deities who were female or...
Today, March 31, in ancient Rome, the foundation of Luna's temple, the moon goddess, on the Aventine Hill, was remembered....
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
On March 17 the Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, ribald and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on...
Bacchus was a Roman agricultural god who was associated with the harvest, particularly that of grapevines. The son of Jupiter...
Julius Caesar was warned by a seer that harm would befall him before the end of the Ides of March,...
In ancient Roman religion, the Mamuralia or Sacrum Mamurio ("Rite for Mamurius") was a festival held on this day, March...
In ancient Roman religion, the Salii were the "leaping priests" (from the verb saliō "leap, jump") of Mars supposed to...
March 5 was the date of an annual, ancient Roman, nautical religious festival called Navigium Isidis, literally “Vessel of Isis”,...
March, spring month par excellence, marked the beginning of the Roman year, which did not end in winter, like ours....
Lupercalia was one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays, one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from...
The Romans held their dead in great respect. They were "di manes", the "good" dead, or honoured ancestors never to...
In these days, from 7 to 17 February, ancient Romans were celebrating agricultural festivals of Fornacalia. It was a festivity...
In ancient Rome, late January marked the beginning of the agricultural calendar because this literally was the time that the...
Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, whatever your holiday, most of the December holiday traditions that we celebrate today can be traced back...
