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How Romans Celebrated Halloween: The Lemuria

Halloween has a long history, stretching all the way back to the Romans. But how did the Romans celebrate the lemuria, the festival of the dead, what was ancient ritual like, and how did it become the modern halloween we know today? Our main source for the Lemuria is Ovid Fasti V https://www.poetryintranslation.com/P... If you're interested in ancient calendars, many of them have been uploaded here: https://epigraphy.osu.edu/collections... For a great read on all the Roman festivals, look at The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic, by W. Warde Fowler, 1899 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59007... For a good modern study, read Dolansky Dolansky, Fanny, "Nocturnal Rites to Appease the Untimely Dead: The Lemuria in Its Socio-Historical Context", Mouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada March 2019 Coin of Theodosius https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... Bronze bowl from Puglia https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... Copper bell from London https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...