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Pod svobodnim soncem: povest davnih dedov (Under the Free Sun: a Story of the Ancient Forefathers) is a historical novel by the Slovene writer Fran Saleški Finžgar. The work was initially published in 1906 and 1907 as a serial story in the conservative newspaper Dom in svet. It was published in the book form in 1912.
Road with Cypress and Star (Dutch: Cypres bij sterrennacht), also known as Country Road in Provence by Night, is an 1890 oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. It is the last painting he made in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , France. [ 1 ]
During Roman times the people of Provence worshiped a wide variety of gods and religions; they worshiped goddesses of fecundity (called matres), gods living in springs of fresh water (such as the Vediantiae at Cimiez); gods of nature (the mistral wind, worshipped as Circius); and Mont Sainte-Victoire, worshipped under its Ligure name, Vintur.
These are historical novels set in ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (753 BC–AD 476). There are sub-categories for some of the lands under Roman control where many novels are set, such as Roman Britain.
The first book Under the Eagle (part of the Eagle series) was published 2000 by Simon Scarrow. Story of Roman invasion of Britain, featuring a young Vespasian. Other books in the series include The Eagle's Conquest (2001 set in 42 AD (introducing Boudicca at the end); When the Eagle Hunts (2002) set in 44 AD.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Roman sites in Provence" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The frieze at the top of the quadrifons is decorated with carvings of tritons, carrying the disk of the sun, and with sea monsters. Bas-relief on the lower part of Glanum mausoleum The lowest part of the mausoleum is decorated with carved garlands of vegetation, theater masks and cupids or putti , and with mythical or legendary scenes.
Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture. Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes Atticae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Johnson, William A. (2012). "Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus" In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. Classical Culture and Society.