Friday, December 23, 2005

 

This Day in Ancient History

This was the day of the Roman one day festival (during the Saturnalia) called the Larentalia, supposedly a funerary ritual at the purported tomb of Acca Larentia, who was the wife of the shepherd who found Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf. Man, is that a slim connection to the mytical founders of Rome or what?

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