Saturnalia, Volume I Reference (General) readers will feel at home

readers will feel at home both in the Constantinople of bygone days and on the streets of the modern town

his mysterious disappearance

her life hasn’t gone exactly as planned

and the importance of being genuine to oneself

Saturnalia, Volume I Reference (General) readers will feel at homeThe Saturnalia, Macrobius's encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century CE, has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore. Cast in the form of a dialogue, the Saturnalia treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy and religion. The new