HAPPY NEW YEAR, PLEBS!
Rich Cole Rich Cole

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PLEBS!

The common folk come, and scattered here and there over the green grass they drink, every lad reclining beside his lass … they grow warm with sun and wine, and they pray for as many years as they take cups, and they count the cups they drink.

— Ovid

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SHOULD YOU EAT BABIES DURING SATURNALIA?
ROMAN CULTURE Rich Cole ROMAN CULTURE Rich Cole

SHOULD YOU EAT BABIES DURING SATURNALIA?

It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. Licence is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: “Once December was a month; now it is a year.”

— Seneca

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THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS
GALLERY Rich Cole GALLERY Rich Cole

THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

— Edward Gibbon

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