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Rome in the Pyrenees is a unique treatment in English of the archaeological and historical evidence for an important Roman town in Gaul, Lugdunum in the French Pyrenees, and for its surrounding people the Convenae. The book opens with the creation of the Convenae by Pompey the Great in the first century B.C. and runs down to the great Frankish siege in A.D. 585 and its aftermath. Now the town ...
Lugdunum, formerly known as the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière ( French: musée gallo-romain de Fourvière) or Museum of Roman Civilisation ( musée de la Civilisation romaine ), is a museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon (Roman Lugdunum ). Previously presented at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and the Antiquarium, the municipal ...
The museum that wasn’t built in a day. Facing the rising sun and the Alps, way up over the Confluence of Rhône and Saône, the Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilisation chronicles five centuries of the city’s history under Rome when Lyon was known as the dazzling capital Lugdunum. Dug deep inside Fourvière hill in the 5 th district of Lyon, with ...
Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (modern: Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul. The city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus. It served as the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. For 300 years after its foundation, Lugdunum was the most important city in the western part of the Roman Empire after ...
The persecution in Lyon in AD 177 was an outbreak of persecution of Christians in Lugdunum, Roman Gaul (present-day Lyon, France), during the reign of Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161–180), recorded in a contemporary letter preserved in Eusebius 's Ecclesiastical History, book 5, chapter 1, which was written 150 years later in Palestine.
The Sanctuary of the Three Gauls (Tres Galliae) ( French: Sanctuaire fédéral des Trois Gaules) was the focal structure within an administrative and religious complex established by Rome in the very late 1st century BC at Lugdunum (the site of modern Lyon in France). Its institution served to federalise and develop Gallia Comata as an Imperial ...
The amphitheater at Lugdunum, the Amphitheater of the Three Gauls, was constructed in AD 19. Its name comes from the structure’s connection to the cult of Rome and Augustus. It was not a particularly large example of an amphitheater in its first stage, with a capacity of not quite 2,000 spectators. (This was expanded to 20,000 in the 2nd ...
