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For six centuries before Christ the Greeks had well established trading settlements along the southern coast of what is now modern France. The Greeks influenced the inland Celtic tribes and, even b...efore the Romans were drawn into Gallic wars to protect trade routes, native settlements were of a scale and sophistication which shows they were part of the classical world. Under Augustus the Romans brought peace to southern Gaul and reorganised it into the first Roman province, known as Gallia Transalpina, or, more simply, the Province. Augustus and his successors founded new towns and embellished the existing ones, forging a distinctive Romano-Celtic culture. In this programme Peter Salway looks at Celtic, Greek and Roman archaeological remains in Arles, Entremont, and Glanum and traces the growth of Roman influence.
For six centuries before Christ the Greeks had well established trading settlements along the southern coast of what is now modern France. The Greeks influenced the inland Celtic tribes and, even b...efore the Romans were drawn into Gallic wars to protect trade routes, native settlements were of a scale and sophistication which shows they were part of the classical world. Under Augustus the Romans brought peace to southern Gaul and reorganised it into the first Roman province, known as Gallia Transalpina, or, more simply, the Province. Augustus and his successors founded new towns and embellished the existing ones, forging a distinctive Romano-Celtic culture. In this programme Peter Salway looks at Celtic, Greek and Roman archaeological remains in Arles, Entremont, and Glanum and traces the growth of Roman influence.
| Module code and title: | A293, Rome: the Augustan age |
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| Item code: | A293; 06 |
| First transmission date: | 19-07-1982 |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:33 |
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| Producer: | Patricia Hodgson |
| Contributor: | Peter Salway |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Archaeology; Arles; Augustus; Celtic tribes; Entremont; Gallia Narbonensis; Glanum; Provence |
| Production number: | FOUA136X |
| Videofinder number: | 2565 |
| Available to public: | no |
