Roman festivals

Roman festivals were a very important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican and Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar.

Quotes

In later literature

• There were his young barbarians all at play,
  There was their Dacian mother—he, their sire,
  Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

• Let our children laugh,
  When Italy is free. Meanwhile proclaim
  A Feast, with three days' offering to the Gods!
  Load every shrine with tributes of glad hearts,
  Crown Victory's statue with triumphal wreathes,
  And scatter flowers about the Capitol;
  Hymning the praise of Jove that stays the flight.
  Let all the readers of our annals say
  Never was such a Roman holiday.
  • John Nichol, Hannibal (1873), V, viii

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Roman festivals on Wikipedia