Salvete omnes!
I have put up a small display in my Hortus post Tabernam in Colonia Nova for the Nonae Caprotinae, a holiday which I celebrated last year as well. This holiday commemorates the bravery of slave women in the Roman Republic whose sacrifice was instrumental in saving the city after its defeat at the hands of the Gauls after the Battle of Allia. Following the siege of Rome by Brennus, Roman power and sovereignty was in complete disarray and the Romans' Latin neighbours were quick to invade Roman territory and attack the Romans. During one such attack, the Latins demanded Roman women as hostages and as their wives:
http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/tools/dictionary.php?regexp=CAPROTINA wrote:Thereupon, at the suggestion of a girl called Tutula (or Philotis), the female slaves disguised themselves as Roman ladies, went into the enemy's camp, and contrived to make the enemy drunk, while Tutula, climbing a wild fig-tree, gave the signal for the Romans to attack by holding up a torch. ... On the 7th July, the female slaves went in procession to the fig-tree, where they carried on all kinds of sports with the assembled multitude. Besides this, there was a sacrifice and a festal meal at the tree, and on the next day a thanksgiving, celebrated by the pontifices.
The slave women who took part in this conspiracy were set free by the state: in my micronation, Sandus, this holiday is seen from a feminist lens.
This holiday also marks one year since former Chancellor Ceasar Xigalia broke political cultural conventions in violating rights to privacy and private property.
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