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The
marketplace is buzzing.
Throngs of citizens and slaves mill about in the square.
Vendors hawking their wares.
The din is deafening.
This is Rome. 79 BC This is the feast of Lupercalia. All are
waiting for the festival to begin…to be blessed by the
Priest of Lupercal…and then…perhaps to find true love, or at
least a play partner for the night ahead.
Fast forward to
Lupercalia 2010
Torches blazing, Caesar presiding, the military on the prowl
for runaway slaves and unruly citizens, slaves for the auction
penned off to the side of the square, under the discipline of
the overseer.
Togas, tunics, everyone is in their very best Roman finery.
In every corner of the square, you will find different stations,
demonstrations of flogging, knives, needles, whips and electric
toys….watch, learn and marvel!
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