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Macrobius' Saturnalia Book One

by: Macrobius; Percival Vaughan Davies, translator

Topics: History, Historical, Ancient, Classical, Late Antiquity, Rome, Roman, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Italy, Greece, Aegean, Religion, Symposia, Saturnalia, Festivals, Holidays, Slaves, Slavery, Social Classes, Anthropology, Folklore

Collection: robert-bedrosian-library; additional_collections

Macrobius' Saturnalia Book One, translated from Latin by Percival Vaughan Davies, from Macrobius: The Saturnalia (New York, 1969), in 176 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Wikipedia has an entry on the 5th-century author (Macrobius), and on his work Saturnalia, which was written after 431. Describing a conversation among scholars during a holiday called Saturnalia (Wikipedia), Macrobius provides us with the ancient world's most complete description of the Roman festival, during which masters and slaves exchanged roles. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian.