On the Celebration of Saturnalia in the Classroom

How to bring one aspect of the pagan holiday into a middle- or high-school Latin class

Saturnalia is a holiday most associated with being the pagan precursor to the practice of exchanging gifts during Christmas. There are no issues with this in a vacuum, but we must always strive to deepen the layman’s interest in the ancient world if we want to bring the classics back into vogue. One way to build a student’s connection to this discipline…