Jump to content
UNRV Ancient Roman Empire Forums

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'Lutetia'.



More search options

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Auditorium
    • Welcome and Introduce Yourself Here
    • Renuntiatio et Consilium Comitiorum
  • Historia Romanorum
    • Imperium Romanorum
    • Templum Romae - Temple of Rome
    • Gloria Exercitus - 'Glory of the Army'
    • Romana Humanitas
    • Colosseum
    • Archaeological News: Rome
    • Academia
  • World History, Cultures and Archaeology
    • Historia in Universum
    • Archaeological News: Britain and Roman-Britain
    • Archaeological News: The World
    • Archaeology
    • Vacatio
  • Et Cetera
    • Hora Postilla Thermae
    • Trajan's Market

Categories

  • Main
  • Academia
  • Book Review
  • Culture
  • Decline of Empire
  • Early Empire
  • Economy
  • Emperors
  • Empire
  • Fall Republic
  • Five Good Emperors
  • Glossary
  • Government
  • Hotels
  • Military
  • Museum
  • Provinces
  • Roman Events
  • Roman Republic
  • Tacitus
  • Travel
  • Interview

Blogs

  • Blah-ger
  • WotWotius's Blog
  • Lost_Warrior's Blog
  • The Rostra
  • Moonlapse's Private Blog
  • Conation of Spurius
  • Lacertus' Blog
  • Hamilcar Barca's Blog
  • Vitalstatistix
  • The musings of a UNRV admin
  • Court of the Emperor
  • Phalangist Propoganda
  • Viggen's Blog
  • longbow's Blog
  • Silentium est aureum
  • Zeke's Blog
  • Onasander's Blog
  • Favonius Cornelius' Blog
  • Tobias' Blog
  • Ekballo Suus
  • The Triclinium
  • Judicii Sexti Roscii.
  • M. Porcius Cato's Blog
  • Rostrum Clodii
  • Killing Time at College
  • Cotidiana Res Meo Vitae
  • Honorius' Blog
  • Nephele's Gothic Anagrams
  • Diurnal Journal - On Occasion
  • The Language of Love
  • caldrail's Blog
  • Court of Antiochus
  • Casa di Livia
  • Northern Neil's guide to a level playing field
  • anima vagula blandula
  • Flavian Ampitheater of the Written Word
  • Divi Filius' Blog
  • GPM's blog
  • miguel's blog
  • VTC's Blog
  • G-Manicus' Blog
  • Klingan's Blog
  • cornelius_sulla's Blog
  • Ancient Writings
  • Aurelia's Insula
  • Centurion-Macro's Legionary barracks
  • dianamt54's Blog
  • Ghost Writer
  • GhostOfClayton's Blog
  • Viggen's Blog
  • The Contrarian
  • WotWotius' Blog
  • sonic's Blog
  • Medusa's Blog
  • Virgil61's Blog

Calendars

  • Calendar of Hisorical Roman Events
  • Events (UK and Europe)
  • Events (The Americas)

Categories

  • Free Classic Works in PDF
  • Historic Novels
  • Scientific Papers
  • Ancient Warfare Magazin

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


AIM


MSN


Website URL


ICQ


Yahoo


Jabber


Skype


Location


Interests

Found 1 result

  1. Aurelia

    Ancient Paris: Looking For Lutetia

    Paris actually has quite a bit to offer the Romanophile visitor. I remember visiting the underground exhibition on the Ile de la Cité. I also attended a wonderful concert held at the Roman Baths (Thermes de Cluny). These and many other hidden treasures are often overlooked by the average tourist, but they are definitely worth a visit. I'm including below an interesting article about Paris aka Lutetia as it was known in Roman times. Had Georges Eugène Haussmann not undertaken to tear up chunks of old Paris, much of the city's very early history would have remained hermetically sealed beneath its medieval layer, forever lost. Only the odd clue or snippet of information about Roman-era Paris had trickled down prior to the 19th century—in Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (52 BC) for a start, where the oppidum of the Parisii—a tribe of Celtic Gauls—on an island of the river Seine (Sequana) is first mentioned. Their settlement was known as Lutetia, or as the French now call it, Lutèce; the name Paris appears for the first time only in the 3rd century AD. Another half a millennium elapsed before the famous chronicler of the History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (circa 538-594), reported the discovery, in a Paris gutter, of an ancient bronze serpent and badger, which his contemporaries interpreted as a premonitory sign that the city would be destroyed by fire—an interesting sidelight but revealing little about Lutetia. The first reference to an urban Roman monument was discovered only in the 12th century: an unsigned document mentions the "great circus" and "immense ruins" of the "arena", with specific reference to their location "by the church of Saint Victor". The famous medieval abbey of Saint Victor, a place of great erudition and beauty complete with cascading rivulets and fragrant orchards, was situated around the present Place Jussieu, now home to the ugly asbestos-ridden sprawl of the University of Paris VII. A section of the Roman aqueduct was unearthed in the Latin Quarter in the 16th century, and two ancient cemeteries, in the rues du Faubourg Saint Jacques and Faubourg Saint Marcel, were located in the 17th. More at France Today
×