Author: ReligionForBreakfast

Join our Patreon community!: Check out my favorite religious studies books: PRIMARY SOURCES: Chronographia anni 354 Seneca, “Moral Letters” Lucian, “Saturnalia” Athenaeus, “The Learned Banqueters” Plutarch, “Moralia” Macrobius, “Saturnalia” Martial Suetonius, “Augustus” and “Vespasian” Pliny, “Letters,” 4 Historia Augusta, Life of Verus, 7 Justinus “Collection of Memorable Things” Epictetus, “Discourses” Catullus 14 Hippolytus, “Chronograph” and “Commentary on Daniel” Julius Africanus, “Chronograph” Augustine “On the Trinity” On Solstices and Equinoxes SECONDARY SOURCES: Andrew McGowan, “How December 25 Became Christmas,” Fanny Dolansky, “Celebrating the Saturnalia: Religious Ritual and Roman Domestic Life,” Chapter 29 in A Companion to Families in the Greek and…