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Cyclope

I.

The city of Arelate was annexed by the Romans in 123 BC. Its citizens took the side of Julius Caesar in his struggle with Pompey the Great and were handsomely rewarded after his victory. A colony, settled with veterans of the sixth Legion, was formally established at that time.

The monumental architecture of Arelate, including an amphitheatre, theatre, a triumphal arch, baths, and bridges, reflected its status as the principal city of Gallia Narbonensis. In the 4th century Constantine favored the city (his son, Constantine II, was born there). The western emperors frequently In the 3rd and 4th centuried. the emperors often resided in Arelate to be geographically closer to the ever-contested frontier.

The city had a strong Christian community, led by such distinghished bishops as St Trophime, St Hilary, and Caesarius of Arles. The latter's contentious interactions with the various barbarian kingdoms on behalf of the local population helped to establish the church as the most effective and preemiment Roman institution to suvive to collapse of the political order in the foresaken west.

The mill at Barbegal, 3 km outside of modern Arles, is one of the most impressive feats of Roman engineering to survive. Powered by two aqueducts feeding 16 tiered overshot water wheels, the mill ground 4.5 tons of flour per day.

II.

Une longue série sur les colonnes. Ici, des colonnes gallo-romaines, principalement en Provence, sauf la dernière dans le Sud-Ouest.

- Les Antiques - Glanum - 1999

- Vaison-la-Romaine - 2006

- Fréjus - baptistère - 1986

- Orange - le théâtre - 2006