{"id":71665,"date":"2020-07-22T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T06:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?page_id=71665"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T08:48:38","slug":"neptunalia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/roman-feasts\/neptunalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptunalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Neptunalia<\/em>, according to some ancient sources, the ancient Romans celebrated<sup class=\"footnote\" data-qtip=\"Varro, De lingua Latina VI.19\" data-footid=\"1\">1<\/sup> on July 23 because of the then-hot summer. It was a two-day celebration in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/honor\/\">honor<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/religia\/bogowie-starozytnego-rzymu\/spis-bogow-rzymskich\/neptun\/\">Neptune<\/a>, god of the seas. For unspecified reasons not much has been preserved about them, but there is talk of some games and building huts\/tents under which the people celebrated. The reason for such little mention is probably that both <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/neptune-roman-god\/\">Neptune<\/a> and the seas played a relatively small role in the life of the Romans.<\/p>\n<p>Neptunalia belonged to the so-called <em>dies comitiales,<\/em> at a time when citizens could vote on civil and military matters. This holiday was called <em>Nept. ludi et feriae<\/em>, or <em>Nept. ludi<\/em>, which implies that the games were related to their celebration (<em>ludi<\/em>). <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/apparently-donuts-were-already-loved-by-ancient-romans\/\">Apparently<\/a>, people celebrating Neptune built houses of branches and leaves (according to Festus, called <em>umbrae<\/em>), in which people drank, eaten and entertained themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neptunalia, according to some ancient sources, the ancient Romans celebrated on July 23 because of the then-hot summer. It was a two-day celebration in honor of Neptune, god of the seas. For unspecified reasons not much has been preserved about them, but there is talk of some games and building huts\/tents under which the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37464,"parent":65826,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71665","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71665\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}