The winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, on what is now 17 December, was the start of the Roman festival of Saturnalia.
The Lord of Misrule was generally a peasant or sub-deacon appointed to be in charge of Christmas revelries, which often included drunkenness and wild partying, in the pagan tradition of Saturnalia.
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In ancient Rome, from the 17th to the 23rd of December, a Lord of Misrule was appointed for the feast of Saturnalia, in the guise of the good god Saturn.
In 1999, Max Cardoso Langer and colleagues collected on the spot the dinosaur Saturnalia Tupiniquim.
Because the Roman pagan festival of Saturnalia (Saturn) was celebrated from 21 to 25 December, Pope Julius I decreed that Christmas was to be celebrated on 25 December, so that the pagan festival had a Christian setting.
Cato tells us that he was wont to give each of his slaves a congius of wine at the Saturnalia and Compitalia.
Some notable lenticular prints from this time include the limited-edition cover of the Rolling Stones' Their Satanic Majesties Request, and Saturnalia's Magical Love, a picture disk with a lenticular center.
The work takes material from the Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius, the Banquet of the Sophists by Ateneo, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, the Memorable deeds and sayings of Valerius Maximus, the Inventor of all things by Polidoro Virgilio, the Moralia and Parallel Lives of Plutarch and, above all, the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.
She wrote also compositions for Buenos Aires – Concierto de Estío' for Guitar and Orchestra – 1999 and for Bochum in Germany – Saturnalia for Orchestra – 1999.