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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:36:57 +0100
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: James Butrica <jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject: Re: Shards for Saturnalia

Today's Globe&Mail reports

"The custom of decorating trees dates back to the ancient Romans, who
adorned them with tiny metal shards during the winter festival Saturnalia,
according to Ron Wolford, an extension educator in horticulture at the
University of Illinois."

Does anyone know what could be behind this claim? It must have been hard on
the birds ...

James L. P. Butrica
Department of Classics
The Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NL  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914 / (709) 753-5799 (home)


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