Latin Language Blog
Menu
Search

Archive for October, 2021

Lemuria: Spooky Roman Festival Posted by on Oct 27, 2021

Today, we will be talking about Halloween, or rather one of the closest equivalences to Halloween in Ancient Rome: Lemuria. So, by closest equivalence – I meant that it is the day(s) of the year that Roman believed ghosts could/would affect their family and needed to be appeased. This is the root of Halloween and similar…

Continue Reading