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SUMMARY:Saturnalia
DESCRIPTION:17-23 December (a.d\n\nThe most exuberant festival of the Rom
 an calendar\, held in honour of the god Saturn from the 17th of December
  and later extended through the 23rd. Public sacrifice at the Temple of 
 Saturn opened a period in which the ordinary order of Roman life was sus
 pended: courts and schools closed\, war was set aside\, the toga gave wa
 y to informal dress and the felt cap of the freedman\, gambling was perm
 itted\, and households were governed by a misrule in which masters serve
 d their slaves at table. Gifts were exchanged\, especially wax candles a
 nd small clay figurines\, and a mock king\, the Saturnalicius...\n\nhttp
 s://economics.interactiveatlas.org/holidays-festivals/saturnalia
URL:https://economics.interactiveatlas.org/holidays-festivals/saturnalia
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