Secular Games

This Roman religious celebration, involving sacrifices and theatrical performances, lasted three days and nights and marks the end of saeculum and the new beginning of the next saeculum. Saeculum means a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or the equivalent of the complete renewal of a human population and was first used by the Etruscan people who were the original inhabitants of Italy. The games date all the way back to 509 BC and put down in 14BC as there were sacrifices to the gods of the underworld. Augustus revived them in 17BC and were also held by Claudia in 47AD in honor of the 800th anniversary of Rome's founding. These games even inspire Horace's Carmen Seculare.

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