Gallia Narbonensis Research Articles

Engaging Europe: rethinking a changing continent

Chapter 1: The Idea of Europe: A Collaborative Pedagogical Project Part I: What Is Europe? Chapter 2: A Story of Europe Chapter 3: The Idea of Europe, Levinas, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice Part II: Where Is Europe? Chapter 4: Relocating Europe Chapter 5: Idea of Rome, Idea of Europe Chapter 6: Provincia Gallia Narbonensis Part III: Testimony and Witness Chapter 7: Listening and the Art of Survival Chapter 8: Primo Levi's Testimony, or Philosophy between Poetry and Science Chapter 9: Europe in the Wake of the Shoah Part IV: Disciplines, Borders, Crossings Chapter 10: Autonomy and the Mistress Discipline in European Thought Chapter 11: Does Baudelaire Read Adam Smith? Chapter 12: On Charting Europeanness Further Reading: A Bibliographical Essay

The Provincial at Rome and Rome and the Balkans, 80 B. C.-A. D. 14

Contents The Provincial at Rome: introduction the evidence admission to the Senate Provincial senators before Augustus Provincial senators before AD 48 prejudice against Provincials the virtues of Provincials Roman and Provincial in Spain and Narbonensis Italicus es an provincialis? Gallia Comata Claudius' speech in Tacitus theOratio Claudii Caaesaris new light on Tiberius and Gaius additional notes - Spanish senators before AD 48, senators from Gallia Narbonensis before AD 48, eastern senators before AD 48. Rome and the Balkans: Macedonia and Dardnia, 80-30 BC Proconsuls of Macedonia, 80-50 BC the status of Illyricum, 80-60 BC Caesar's designs on Dacia and Parthia the early history of Moesia.

Paulinus of Nola, Courtyards, and Canthari

Some of the most elaborate and detailed descriptions of early Christian churches by a Latin writer are given by the nobleman Pontius Meropius Paulinus, who is usually known as Paulinus of Nola, after the city where he became bishop in the latter part of his life. He was born in Bordeaux around 353, of a wealthy family that had extensive properties in Aquitania, Gallia Narbonensis, Latium, and Campania. He received an education appropriate to his noble stature and became the prize student of Ausonius, also a native of Bordeaux, who was the tutor of the (future) emperor Gratian and a celebrated poet at court.

Avant-propos

The meeting held in 1999, on May, the 7th at Aix-en-Provence, dealing with materials used to make sculptures (not so often studied till nowadays), presents a set of various papers from Protohistory to Middle Ages (historiography, material analysis technics, study of cases choosen in Gallia Narbonensis,). Different approaches and various experiences have been compared and an inventory of recent studies in the area was drawn up. The papers deal mainly with material from the Museums of Gallia Narbonensis.

Index onomastique et géographique des inscriptions de la Narbonnaise publiées dans l'Année Epigraphique 1925-1996

This index meant to make easier the researches of people studying the Gallia Narbonensis onomastics, aims to be more exhaustive than the CIL alone. An introductory note offers useful instructions to users.

Dynamiques territoriales et subdivisions des cités romaines. A propos des cités d'Avignon et Arles (Gaule Narbonnaise)

This article considers the question of the territories of the Roman cities of Arles (Arelate) and Avignon (Avennio) in the context of the changes brought about by the Roman penetration into south Gaul. Following recent work in geography on the different meanings of the term "territory", the author explains the importance of the difference between a catchment territory, defined by economic relations, and a political territory, defined by administrative dependence on a centre. Questions about territory and legal status must be asked independently of one another. The author follows A. Chastagnol in his view that Caesar granted autonomy to Marseille's former dependencies. It follows that Aries' territory, as it was known in the second century C.E., was formed by the aggregation, under the Imperial power, of politically heterogeneous territorial units. He emphasizes the importance of Avignon, which is the least known among the Roman towns of Rhone valley, and discusses the historical importance of the idea that the Rhone represented a natural boundary. In the geographical and political context of Gallia Narbonensis, there is no reason to be surprised that Glanum was an autonomous city possessing its own territory. Its coalescence with Arles or Avignon was the consequence of a territorial organization of the province in a later period. After its administrative assignment to one of these two chief towns, Glanum still had a territory attached to it.

More Italy Than Province? Archaeology, Texts, and Culture Change in Roman Provence

Pliny the Elder's vision of a Provence already deeply Romanized by the late first century C.E. has long informed historical and archaeological discourse on the region. Monographs on the province of Gallia Narbonensis and the Gallic provinces generally, while acknowledging the important cultural developments of the pre-Roman period, tend to interpret, a la Pliny, Romanization as something of a one way process involving mainly the adoption of Roman culture by the local population.' A more balanced assessment of the nature of culture change in southern Gaul in the Roman period is overdue. This can only be achieved through a more thorough analysis of the archaeological record than has been attempted to date, and by a greater willingness on the part of archaeologists and historians of Roman Provence to move beyond a vision of archaeology as something more than a material affirmation of the vision presented in the ancient literature. To illustrate the potential of this approach I would like to present two archaeological case studies that tell a slightly story of cultural change and invention in Provence than that told by ancient texts. But different in this instance should not be taken to mean discordant, for, when integrated, these disparate bodies of knowledge inform one another and contribute to a new understanding of Provence's Roman past.

Recherches sur la société d'une agglomération de la cité de Vienne : Aoste (Isère)

Aoste (Isère), a small Romanlike uicus of the city of Vienne, was founded by Augustus perhaps to settle the office of the Gallia Narbonensis collectors of the twentieth freed slaves tax. A rather significant set of inscriptions and archeological documents assert that presently it is the only urban area within the city of Vienne to show such an industrial aspect with its ceramics, glass, plumber's and metal workshops. Through these documents we can study the juridical status as well as the denomination and the social and economic activity of its inhabitants ; we can also have a closer look at the religious practices and the evergetic behaviours of the small part of the population which could afford to have an inscription engraved.

La présence de Tibère en Narbonnaise : les portraits et les inscriptions.

Here we have brought together the statuary and epigraphic evidence that relates to Tiberius in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. The presence of this emperor as represented in these two forms of expression, usually privileged for imperial propaganda, seems relatively discrete compared with that of Augustus, even if we take into account the probable disappearance of much of the evidence. This can be explained by several facts : Tiberius' power was less extensive than that of Augustus, he did not possess his charisma and he did not visit the Gaulish Provinces during his reign. At another level, he refused exhibitions of excessive flattery. The population of the Province, who was satisfied with the Empire as the source of peace and prosperity, preferred to demonstrate his loyalty to the Julio-Claudian dynasty, rather than to a prince who did not encourage his adulation.

Le cadastre colonial d'Orange

In Orange, a new Roman centuriation, previous to the "B" cadaster and therefore of the Augustean Age is established. This centuriation — "Orange E" — seems to be directly linked to the colonial foundation of the city, under Octavian. While developing this topic, a new light is shed on the succession of two centuriationes within a very short time, as this was shown for other cities of the Gallia Narbonensis.

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

Description of Supplementary Illustrations. Plates LIII-LVI

All the plates in this number are concerned with the Roman cities of Nemausus (Nîmes), Arelate (Arles), and Arausio (Orange). In the ancient writers references to these places are strangely infrequent, though Pliny throws some light on the advanced romanization of the district: ‘Agrorum cultu, virorum morumque dignatione, amplitudine opum, nulli provinciarum postferenda breviterque Italia verius quam provincia’ (H.N. iii. 31). He also tells us that there was in Nemausiensi agro a pool, Laterra, where dolphins fished with the natives! (H.N. ix. 8.) From Suetonius, moreover, we gather that the Imperial Cult, early established in Gallia Narbonensis, was not always popular, for the folk of Nemausus overthrew the imagines and statues of Tiberius even in his lifetime (Tib. 13). In the same book we are told that Tiberius' father was sent to found coloniae at Arelate and Narbo (Tib. 4), and Pliny (H.N. iii. 4) declares that these were recruited from veterans of the Tenth and Sixth Legions.Both these cities were flourishing before Tiberius succeeded Augustus, and Agrippa especially stamped his mark on Provence. Arausio was already famous for the battle there in the second century B.C. with the Cimbri and Teutones. Arelate appears to have maintained its importance for centuries: there was even a suggestion, in the fifth century, that it should be the Imperial capital city (Ausonius had described it, some time before, as ‘Gallulam Romam’).It was natural that the arts should flourish among a people as cultured as the Gauls. Varro, writing of the natives of these parts, says that they were ‘trilingues, quod et Graece loquuntur et Latine et Gallice’ (ap. Isidorum, Etym. xv. 1. 63), and much valuable information on their literary achievements will be found in Mayor's notes on the Gallia… facunda of Juvenal xv. 111.