Roman Provence by Edwin Mullins (9781904955917)

Description - Roman Provence by Edwin Mullins

The Roman occupation of Provence lasted six centuries,
beginning more than one hundred years before the birth of
Christ, and surviving until well after most of Europe had
become Christian. Today the region remains richer in
Roman monuments than anywhere in the world. They are
everywhere you look, from vast amphitheatres and
triumphal arches to paved road and aqueducts which
bestride the countryside. Two thousand years later, the
Roman genius for engineering still astonishes. Provence
owes its name to Julius Caesar who described the region
as the 'Province of Rome'. It was then a much larger
area, stretching westwards to include Languedoc and
Roussillon as far as the Pyrenees, eastward to the
Riviera and the Maritimes Alps, and northwards up the
Rhone Valley as far as Lyon. This book covers much of
that larger area while concentrating on the area of
present-day Provence and neighbouring Languedoc, the
heartlands of the former Roman colony.

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