Saturday, December 03, 2005
This Day in Ancient History
On this day were sometimes celebrated the rites in honor of the Bona Dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class wives. The actual date does not appear to have been 'fixed' and the relationship of this rite to the 'official' sacrifice to the goddess on May 1 is unclear. In any event, this ritual was 'crashed' by P. Clodius (dressed as a woman) in 62 B.C. with all sorts of nasty spinoffs, not least of which was the Gaius Julius Caesar's divorce from his wife Pompeia.
Kind of like a groom spying on a modern bachelorette party, I suppose, or a really wicked bunko party.
(h/t rogueclassicism)
Kind of like a groom spying on a modern bachelorette party, I suppose, or a really wicked bunko party.
(h/t rogueclassicism)
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 12:08 AM 
