Lupercalia festival and Caesar and fertility and high school
After reading Peter's blog on the history of Valentine's Day, I was reminded that the Lupercalia festival is mentioned in William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. For years, I forced my high school students to read, and yes, enjoy, the beauty of the Master's writing.
Lupercalia festival was a pagan holiday when women could shake "the barren curse" and become fertile again. Now all my former students who read the blog and who also read the play have a connection to Valentine's Day and Shakespeare. Now that is cool. (Retired English teachers are so easily amused.)
Of course, the joy of the Lupercalia festival and fertility is over shadowed in the play by the death of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March (March 15).
All of this ties into Vegas, "How?" you ask.
Well, in Vegas, one of the greatest Hotels and Casinos is . . . Caesars Palace.
A walk through CP is a guided tour through Mythology 101 and Roman history. Whether dancing on Cleopatra’s Barge or watching the moving statues of the gods Bacchus, Apollo, and others at the Forum Shops; tourists and locals are transported in time to Ancient Rome.
Got to love Vegas!
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