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Where did the Christmas tree come from? Is it a Christian tradition, or a pagan one? What did the Ancient Romans do, and how were their celebrations related to later Christmas festivities? All this and more in the video!
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Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
Sources referenced:
Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History. University of North Carolina Press
archive.org/details/christmasgermany00perr
From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated
history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees
spacedoutscientist.com/2015/12/22/the-curious-history-of-the-christmas-tree
biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah%2010&version=VULGATE;KJV
academic-bible.com/en/online-bibles/septuagint-lxx/read-the-bible-text/bibel/text/lesen/stelle/24/100001/109999/ch/39de55f565130cce8880bca79005f1d6
Where did the Christmas tree come from? Is it a Christian tradition, or a pagan one? What did the Ancient Romans do, and how were their celebrations related to later Christmas festivities? All this and more in the video!
🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon:
patreon.com/posts/54058196
📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks:
luke-ranieri.myshopify.com
🦂 Support my work on Patreon:
patreon.com/LukeRanieri
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paypal.me/lukeranieri
And if you like, do consider joining this channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCLbiwlm3poGNh5XSVlXBkGA/join
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🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/ancient-greek-by-the-ranieri-dowling-method-latin-summary-of-forms-of-nouns-verbs-adjectives-pronouns-audio-grammar-tables
🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam
👨🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons:
youtu.be/j7hd799IznU
🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel for content in Latin, Ancient Greek, & Ancient Egyptian)
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🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio:
lukeranieri.com/audio
🌍 polýMATHY website:
lukeranieri.com/polymathy
🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram:
instagram.com/lukeranieri
🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast:
youtube.com/LegioXIII
👕 Merch:
teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus
🦂 ScorpioMartianus.com
🦅 LukeRanieri.com
📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon:
amzn.to/2nVUfqd
Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart
Sources referenced:
Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History. University of North Carolina Press
archive.org/details/christmasgermany00perr
From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated
history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees
spacedoutscientist.com/2015/12/22/the-curious-history-of-the-christmas-tree
biblegateway.com/passage/?search=jeremiah%2010&version=VULGATE;KJV
academic-bible.com/en/online-bibles/septuagint-lxx/read-the-bible-text/bibel/text/lesen/stelle/24/100001/109999/ch/39de55f565130cce8880bca79005f1d6
