Food and dining in the Roman Empire and a pesto-like preparation, somewhat similar to pizza or focaccia. Maintaining a bread oven is labor-intensive and requires space, so apartment dwellers probably prepared their dough at home, then had it baked in a communal oven. Mills and commercial ovens, usually combined in a bakery complex, were considered so vital to the wellbeing of Rome that several religious festivals honored the deities who furthered these processes—and even the donkeys who toiled in the mills. Vesta, the goddess of the hearth, was seen as complementary to Ceres, the goddess of grain, and donkeys were garlanded and given a rest on the
The Goddess of Spring of animation, as "The Goddess of Spring" was produced as "practice" for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Several animators who worked on the short film later worked on the major motion picture. Disney released several collections of "Silly Symphonies" short films on VHS, DVD and Laserdisc. In the United States, "The Goddess of Spring" appeared on the VHS tape "Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 : Fanciful Fables". It was also featured on the DVD versions of "It's a Small World of Fun - Volume 4", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Platinum Edition)", "More Silly Symphonies