Celebrating Saturnalia and winter solstice in Ancient Rome

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Great video; Saturnalia has always been a fascinating holiday to me. Also, btw, loving the Via Appia series.

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Merry Christmas!!!

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Great Video! Roma Invicta!!

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Fascinating! Thanks for sharing

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[@bridaw8557]

Happy Saturnalia and Festivus

[@nordwestpassage]

Io Saturnalia!

[@carleslazaro6117]

Io Saturnalia and happy holidays!

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Happy new year!

[@ingemarolson3240]

Darius, that thing you said about "the sun is furthest from the earth on the winter solstice" (at about 0:47) is absolutely NOT true. But, alas, a common misunderstanding. In fact, the distance is almost at its MINIMUM then. The reason the days are shorter at that time of year is because of the earth's tilt on its axis, meaning that the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, resulting in shorter days. You need to picture the earth's orbit around the sun as almost a circle; but the non-circularity is very, very small, so the distance does change, but only a little; and it does have an effect on the AMOUNT of sunlight we get, but (again) only a very small effect. The axis tilt is by far the major contributor to winter in the northern hemisphere in December, and to winter in the southern hemisphere in June. Also, thank you for mentioning that the "Roman year" began in January. It made me look up when it was changed from March. I was surprised to (re-)discover that it was as early as 153 BC!

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Agreed, Darius could have said it more clearly. THE TILT. Appreciate it!

[@nancytestani1470]

Could women join in the festival?

[@spencerignatescue158]

IO, SATURNALIA!!

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yes! Io Saturnalia!

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

IO SATVRNALIA

[@marthaarya167]

Interesting1

[@thedon978]

Balderdash.

[@nancytestani1470]

The Lord of Misrule.. topsy turbulence..

[@erika7684]

😳 P r o m o S M

[@mayansbudha4317]

Once Rome had their own great culture their own gods their own festivals but now it is surrendered under semantic religion originated in Israel..

[@boris8787]

Nobody in the smart town of Chillingbourne celebrates evil Xmas.

[@nordwestpassage]

Top comment!

[@nancytestani1470]

Ha

[@paurushbhatnagar8100]

Saturnalia was black mass for early Christians.

[@indiasimble3002]

You are totally right. This Pagan celebration was a big sin for anyone that believe in Christ. Rome forced the population to change their religion to Christianism in name only but kept all the pagans tradition very much alive, including the worship of images.

[@Trollstarz]

Big sin?..what are you talking about here?...Constantine made a strategic decision to adopt Christianity to stem the rise of barbaric Christianity...the Catholic Church was king of Europe until the 16th century

[@simoneteritti1120]

Saturnalia is stile alive,Io Saturnalia Merry Chistmas

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Auguri!