Festival of Saturnalia

This is the Roman festival traditionally celebrated on Dec. 17th. It was a Roman adaptation of the Greek Kronia. The holiday is mentioned by Seneca in Letters 18 and in his Apocolocyntosis and by Epictetus in Discourses 1.25, 29 and 4.1. A time of hope in the darkness of Winter and aspirations and reflections of a Golden Age.