The Great Festival of Saturn
International Workshop organized by Schola Humanistica, in cooperation with Academia Latinitati Fovendae, Cultura Clásica, Europa Latina, LUPA, Wrocław University and The Paideia Institute
Finally, a seminar to the pranks and games that took place in Rome during Saturnalia! In this festival, celebrated at the end of December, Romans participated in banquets, gambled, and partook in nonsensical behaviors and entertainment otherwise forbidden throughout the rest of the year. During the annual event, masters prepared a table for their slaves with a reversal of traditional status in a way that must have evoked the equality characteristic of the Golden Age. The power of the festival resided in the subversion of norms of daily life and the transgression of boundaries that defined class, age, and gender. In this seminar we will explore the essence of the Saturnalia for Romans and the liberating power deriving from the shedding of ones own identify by assuming the identify of someone else through Latin texts drawn from various periods.
Sunday, December 20th, 2020
| Schedule | |
| 17:00-17:20 CET
Giuseppe Marcellino – Paolo Pezzuolo (Schola Humanistica, Padova) |
Orationes aditiales
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| 17:20-17:40 CET
Katarzyna Ochman (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) |
De ludicris Saturnaliciis ab Aulo Gellio Athenis agitatis |
| 17:40 – 18:00 CET
Marco Romani Mistretta (The Paideia Institute, New York) |
Hilarius cenandum, sive de philosophi victu inter Saturnalia |
| 18:00-18:20 CET
Paolo Pezzuolo (Schola Humanistica, Padova) |
Proverbia Latina de Saturnalibus |
| 18:20-18:40 CET
Oroel Marcuello Gil (Cultura Clásica, Granada) |
Age, libertate Decembri, quando ita maiores voluerunt, utere! |
| 18:40-19:00 CET
Giancarlo Rossi (Academia Latinitati Fovendae, Roma) Claudio Piga (Europa Latina, Milano) |
Tarantula de mundo inverso |
| 19:00-19:20 CET
Cecilie Koch (LUPA, Xanten) |
Saturnalia Polonorum |