Rome, the beginning of the 5th century A.D. With the backdrop of the first looting of the city in 410, Macrobio, an aristocrat of provinces who has reached relevant positions in the imperial administration, decides to write for his son Eustatio a work that summarizes the knowledge of the time, for which Adopt the Platonic banquet model. In this, which lasts during the three days of the feast of Saturnals, the author makes the most outstanding figures of the last paganism participate; They are the last defenders of the Roman tradition in a changing world in which Christianity triumphs. His conversation will develop multiple themes: serious in the morning, such as solar theology, patetism in the rhetoric or the work of Virgil; And more light in the desktop: norms of behavior in a banquet, medical and scientific issues or jocular anecdotes of the most relevant characters of ancient Rome.