Roman Holidays

4. a festival on April 21 which also was celebrated as the birthday of Rome
5. a week-long celebration to the Roman goddess of grain held in mid-April
6. a fertility festival on February 15 which features prominently in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar plsy
8. the 13th or 15th of each month which often had one or more festivals associated with it
10. generic plural Latin word for holidays
11. week-long festival in December which could be a reason Christmas ended up in December
12. a week-long festival in February to honor deceased ancestors

1. "The Good Goddess" ceremonies were only for wmmen at which there was a scandal in Caesar's time with Clodius
2. a work of the poet Ovid which details the Roman religions calendar, unfortunately only half survives
3. the first of each month which often had one or more festivals associated with it
7. "The Roman Games" a two-week long series of games in September
9. a festival in June dedicated to the Roman goddess of the hearth