La saturnalia
There are sites, sights, statues, oracles, and curiosities of foreign food.
His mind is supposed to be set on Athens not athletics, so Falco is sent out to ensure the scholar finds his university without being sidetracked by sport, corpses, or the Seven Wonders of the World. He has heard an intriguing story about two dead women at the ancient site of the Olympic Games. Those who died abroad knew the Roman port authorities would try to charge import duty on their ashes, especially if they came home in a luxury urn…Īulus, now a model student, has met an interesting man. Mountain scenery was panoramic but roads were rough, beds were hard (where they were available), fellow travellers were ghastly and the weather could only be relied upon to be foul. Las saturnalia, las fiestas de Saturno, una divinidad antigua que gobern en una poca en la que todos los hombres eran iguales, comenzaron a celebrarse en 497 a.C., cuando se le dedico un templo. The Golden Age of tourism was the First Century AD, when the site guides – then as now – babbled incomprehensibly, the hotels were always under construction and when things went wrong, the travel companies did not want to know. Le fait quils soient dsormais gnralement clbrs la suite dune priode de cohabitation entrane des modifications dans le rituel: les fianailles. Baco, en la mitologa romana, dios del vino, identificado con Dioniso. The Greeks had a word for everything – and the Romans invented the rest. The Saturnalia was an enduring Roman festival dedicated to the agricultural god.