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Join Rome’s citizenry for a Bacchanalian revelry of unparalleled extravagance worthy of Roman grandeur! Come share a New Year's Eve memory as eternal as Rome!

 

December 31, 2007 (The most convenient time for a New Year's Eve Party!) at the glamorously opulent, fabulously luxurious Villa Dominus

8:00 p.m. Monday until we kick you out Wednesday (by forcing you to watch all XIII episodes of "I, Claudius")

We'll have a place, a theme, some champagne, party treats, contests and prizes, endless eye candy, an epic extravaganza, all the usual suspects, fun and games for adults of all ages, and a cast of tens!

Each year we’ve catered lavishly. This year we ask our party goers to contribute to the party’s success. Please bring your own brand of fun to the festivities. Bring your favorite or specialty drinks and some to share. Let’s make this shared effort a real party!

There is No Entry Fee, of course! This party is Rome 's gift to her many friends!

Festive lights sparkle from ancient hills' rich villas where imperial ambitions were born. Myriad beacons stave off the Eternal City's dark midwinter murk. Saturnalia's festivals are now complete. The servile toil to pour libations from splashing amphorae into gem encrusted chalices of their togate masters.

Campaign season lies months hence, after spring's thaw. War's gleaming instruments are sheathed this night. Conquerors' bejeweled fists instead lift goblets high to honored friends and beloved family. Antiquity's noble plunderers revel in salutation of New Year's shining hopes and crimson destinies.
 

In purple frescoed villas and marble halls of the Roman great, the glowing promise of a new day is deified on such a night as New Year's Eve as Janus, the twin-faced God of Gates. He stands as the mystical personification of transition. Transition between what has been and what will be. Between past and future, memory and imagination, knowledge and fear. Between hearth's comfort and the benighted gulfs of the endless void. Janus stands with us as we stand together – at the threshold of eternity.

With immortal Janus, we will greet the new year together and unafraid. We will toast with ceremony and decorum our memories of shared glories in years gone by. We will toast with roaring Bacchanalian excess the unparalleled prosperity we will carve from 2008 under the golden Eagles of Empire. And most importantly, we will honor those many cherished friendships that make our history so memorable and our future so bright.

Sounds like a Toga Party!

Friends, Romans, countrymen,

Tatyana and I invite you to our home to welcome the New Year at Rome 's annual and traditional Toga Party. This is our way of honoring our bonds, our chance to celebrate our cherished friendships and the times we share. This is our first party all year, we intend for it to be through the roof. This has been one of Rome ’s greatest years. Our party must reflect our many triumphs. We invite you to build a New Year's Eve memory as eternal as Rome herself at our New Year's Eve Toga Party! This will be Rome ’s best party ever, because it was our best year ever. We hope that you will attend to share the festivities.

We recognize that many of our invited guests are too distant and that the unfortunate geography which separates us will prevent you from attending. We are extending the invitation anyway. I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a splendid holiday season, and to assure you that we will lift our glasses to toast our absent and distant friends. I hope the New Year brings you happiness, and look forward to sharing that happiness at Ragnarok or Pennsic, or wherever our roads may cross. Thank you for your continued friendship.

Happiest of Saturnalia holidays and warmest wishes to you and to your families. May the holidays find you surrounded by friends and family, basking deservedly in the warmth and happiness of hearth and home.

See you at the party, and Gods bless!

Salvete civites,
Your devoted Imperator

This is a party sponsored by and for the Senate and People of Rome and their invited guests. If you have not been invited, write to Dominus/Sean and make sure it's okay. If you're a friend of Rome you're certainly welcome, provided you know how to behave in the Villa Dominus. Stumbling on to this page does NOT qualify as an invitation.

 

We did some research to find out when ancient Romans historically held their New Year's Eve Parties. Click here for the answer!

 

 


             (Party Rules!)

  1. Have FUN! - NO DRAMA, NO MELODRAMA, NO PSYCHODRAMAS!!! From anyone! We will not have your frown ruining our party pictures! If we even suspect that you are not having fun, you will be violently escorted from the premises by Dominus' dedicatedly sadistic Praetorian Guards and exiled to a tiny and remote island where you will suck bird droppings from shells for the remainder of your miserable days.
  2. DO NOT get sick or spill drinks on my floor!!! If you're too wasted to maintain, return home and ruin your own villa. If you do see someone spilling drinks, you are at liberty to crucify them. We supply complimentary hammer and nails, but keep the blood in the backyard out of consideration for my already overworked slaves.
  3. Bring your own togas. We have extras, but they’re not the right fashion statement and we should all dress to oppress. Togas are optional! The theme is not.
  4. If you don't want to wear a toga, you fall into the loser category. But just don't show up in Celtic tribal wear either, or you will be sold as galley slaves! Cheaply! Go with the theme, civites, that's what makes the party fun!  (Clarification for our fellow medieval combat enthusiasts - this is a Toga Party, NOT a costume party.) Purple is reserved for deserving Romans citizens only.
  5. Leave your kids at home unless you want them given private lessons in catapult aiming!
  6. Tobias Deloricus Desponius shall preside as Aedile, Rome's Lord of the Games!
  7. The party's downstairs! Restrict your activities to the designated party areas unless specifically invited elsewhere by the Imperator or his designated agents.
  8. Guests, please be civil and tasteful with regard to your hosts and the theme. This party is for your beloved, domineering Roman Overlords. If you piss off a Roman, you may be asked to leave. If it's your first offense, you might get let off with crucifixion…
  9. Police your cigarette butts, bottles, and cans. You're not in the Subura anymore, you filthy barbarians! Don't treat this like your home, treat it like MY home! Keep smoking outside, Vesuvius.
  10. If you need crash space, you can probably have it if you make arrangements well in advance. But please bring your own pillow and blanket. Do not fall asleep on couches either, or you may be rolled off on to the floor in favor of guests who are still awake!

 

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Please note the new cell phone number! 571-235-6432

Note to non-Romans: if you do not have your Roman Decoder Ring, click here for directions.

  • Directions from the CCCCVC Imperial Beltway are as follows: 
  • Take Route L (50; Arlington Blvd.) East from CCCCVC. 
  • At VII Corners, Take Route VII (Leesburg Pilum) East Towards Alexandria.
  • At the fourth light, turn Right on the Via Nevius.  (Sign may still be twisted to read Leesburg Pilum)
  • Take your first right on Wilkins Drive. 
  • The glamorously opulent, fabulously luxurious Imperatorial Palace is at 3327 Wilkins Drive, and it will be on the left. If you get lost, you suck. However, you are not without recourse. Our phone number is 571-235-6432. Enter through the Bacchanalian Temple door.
  • Directions from DC and all points south: 
  • Follow CCCVC to Route VII (Via Rex). 
  • Take the Via Rex west from CCCVC.
  • Go through Bailey's Crossroads. After Culmore Forum on the left, take a left on the Via Nevius at the second light. 
  • Take your first right on Wilkins Drive. 
  • The glamorously opulent, fabulously luxurious Imperatorial Palace is at 3327 Wilkins Drive, and it will be on the left. If you get lost, you suck. However, you are not without recourse. Our phone number is 571-235-6432. Enter through the Bacchanalian Temple door.
     

 

 

This is a party sponsored by and for the Senate and People of Rome and their invited guests! If you have not been invited, write to a Roman and make sure it's okay. If you're a friend of Rome you're certainly welcome, provided you know how to behave in the Villa Dominus. Stumbling on to this page does NOT qualify as an invitation.


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Answer: Ancient Romans held their New Year's Eve parties ON New Year's Eve!  Duh!!!! 

Actually (i.e., the history geek answer) the historic Roman New Year was traditionally March 1. The beginning of spring. That gave the new Consuls of the year two weeks before the traditional campaign season began. Two weeks to muster and mobilize Legions and prepare to carry on that grand old martial tradition of war that made Rome such a hit among her neighbors. 

 

 

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