Saturnalia

Io, Saturnalia!

Music is:
"I //\\ I," by Discount Fireworks

[sgtrpcommand]

Imagine being a poor Roman mother rushing about Walmartius looking for gifts for everyone thinking "I swear, Saturnalia comes about earlier each year!"

[RJStockton]

The Romans literally had Opposite Day.

[ringodoom]

A satue filled with olive oil. Ive never heard of anything more roman than this. It sounds like a meme.

[calska]

any holiday where you wear weird hats, party all night, gamble with nuts, exchange gifts and poems, shout jibberish at each other, and everyone drops their airs and visits with each other, sounds like a good time.

[imperatorcaesardivifiliusa]

Hey, do you think the real reason the Senators assassinated Julius Caesar was because he forgot to give Brutus a gift? Maybe he accidentally bought a cheaper one.

[Suite_annamite]

*"Your mistresses cost you nothing: you enjoy them at my expense."*

[nelly]

That martial guy was such a Troll. I bet he would have loved the internet

[MrMichaelbird]

"Your mistress cost you nothing, you enjoy them at my expense." Quality stuff right here

[irongeneral]

"Muh boi, Cicero"
*One year or so earlier*
"Muh boi, Caesar"
Which is it, Civilis? Huh? :/

[Bootrick]

I laughed till my sides hurt when I heard, "going full Festivus with an airing of grievances."

[mordirit]

One thing I came across in my Latin class was that perhaps the Romans didn't bet actual nuts in their betting dice games during the Saturnalia, a point that came up as we were translating Martial's epigrams actually, which is a nice coincidence to how this video ended.

Nux did mean walnut, yes, but it was also used as a metaphors for "thing of little/no value", being used that way by Martial; the theory my teacher mentioned was that perhaps some people used some of those crappy gifts they kept around to give to random visitors in their bets; there is slim evidence for this, since it comes almost entirely from Martial using the metaphor of "nuts" as something of little value to refer to the presents during Saturnalia, but well, it is a possibility and it kinda makes more sense; then again lots of things about Saturnalia make little sense so who knows xD

[judebreheny]

“Your mistresses cost you nothing, you enjoy them at my expense”
That’s just plain funny.

[alexdiaz]

It’s incredible to see how much this holiday survives in Christmas, the gift giving spirit, the salutation to be given to everyone, the consumption of the whole month of December in the name of holiday, and the Scrooge’s that just hate them.

[holdinmcgroin]

The Romans sure knew how to fuckin party.

[Lykyk]

On the first day of Saturnalia my true love gave to me...

[tompryal]

Watching all of these videos, but especially this one, I’m always amazed at the fact that these people were no different than us. Easy to imagine your drunk uncle at the Saturnalia party instead of the Christmas party

[leoc]

This is literally just thanksgiving, Christmas, and Halloween all wrapped together

[Pyotyrpyotyrpyotyr]

The goddess of ops was special.





Special ops.

[Atlas-pnjv]

I went to a college that had a day much like the first day of Saturnalia. Students and professors all came together for a festival on the main quad and got super drunk. Classes were cancelled, tests foregone. It was awesome. Though I have heard the new president of the college is trying to get rid of the holiday altogether because he considers it immoral and a stain on the college's reputation.

[GnosticInformant]

I watch this video every year around this time.