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Gallo-Roman Theater of Lisieux, the Glossary

The Gallo-Roman theater of Lisieux is an ancient Roman entertainment structure dating back to the 2nd century.^[1]

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre (British English) or amphitheater (American English; both) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Aqueduct (water supply)

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.

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Arcisse de Caumont

Arcisse de Caumont (20 August 1801, Bayeux – 16 April 1873, Caen) was a French historian and archaeologist.

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Autun

Autun is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France.

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Base Mérimée

The Base Mérimée is the database of French monumental and architectural heritage, created and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture.

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Berthouville

Berthouville is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.

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Caen

Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.

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Calvados (department)

Calvados is a department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Cavea

The cavea (Latin for "enclosure") are the seating sections of Greek and Roman theatres and amphitheatres.

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Commodus

Commodus (31 August 161 – 31 December 192) was a Roman emperor who ruled from 177 until his assassination in 192.

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Constantine the Great

Constantine I (27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

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In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.

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Drevant

Drevant is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.

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Euergetism

Euergetism (or evergetism, from the Greek εὐεργετέω, "do good deeds") was the ancient practice of high-status and wealthy individuals in society distributing part of their wealth to the community.

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Eure

Eure is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure.

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Forum (Roman)

A forum (Latin: forum, "public place outdoors",: fora; English: either fora or forums) was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Gallia Lugdunensis

Gallia Lugdunensis (French: Gaule Lyonnaise) was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica.

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Gallia Narbonensis

Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for "Gaul of Narbonne", from its chief settlement) was a Roman province located in what is now Occitania and Provence, in Southern France.

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Gallo-Roman culture

Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. Gallo-Roman Theater of Lisieux and Gallo-Roman culture are Roman Gaul.

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Genainville

Genainville is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France.

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Gisacum

Gisacum was a Gallo-Roman religious sanctuary near the settlement of Mediolanum Aulercorum (Évreux) in the territory of the Eburovices in northern Gaul (now Normandy).

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Gladiator

A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.

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Humus

In classical soil science, humus is the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter.

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Le Vieil-Évreux

Le Vieil-Évreux is a commune in the Eure department and Normandy region of France.

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Lexovii

The Lexovii (Gaulish: *Lexsouioi, 'the leaning, lame'), were a Gallic tribe dwelling immediately west of the mouth of the Seine, around present-day Lisieux, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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Lisieux

Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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List of Roman theatres

Roman theatres built during the Roman period may be found all over the Roman Empire.

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Lutetia

Lutetia, (Lutèce) also known as Lutecia and Lutetia Parisiorum, was a Gallo–Roman town and the predecessor of modern-day Paris.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.

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A metal detector is an instrument that detects the nearby presence of metal.

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Ministry of Culture (France)

The Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the monuments historiques.

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Monument historique

Monument historique is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France.

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Murus gallicus

Murus gallicus or Gallic wall is a method of construction of defensive walls used to protect Iron Age hillforts and oppida of the La Tene period in Western Europe.

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Naumachia

The naumachia (in Latin, from the Ancient Greek /, literally "naval combat") in the Ancient Roman world referred to both the staging of naval battles as mass entertainment, and the basin or building in which this took place.

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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1 December 1580 – 24 June 1637), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name, Peirescius, was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Ouest-France

Ouest-France (French for "West-France") is a daily French newspaper known for its emphasis on both local and national news.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pile (monument)

A pile, also known as a Roman pile, Gallo-Roman pile, or funerary pile, is a specific type of funerary monument in the archaeological vocabulary of France: elevated towers, typically square or rectangular in plan, with circular forms being less common.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Raymond Lantier

Raymond François Lantier (11 July 1886, Lisieux – 2 April 1980, Le Vésinet) was a 20th-century French archaeologist.

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Regions of France

France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (régions, singular région), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status).

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Roman amphitheatre

Roman amphitheatres are theatres — large, circular or oval open-air venues with tiered seating — built by the ancient Romans.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman Gaul

Roman Gaul refers to GaulThe territory of Gaul roughly corresponds to modern-day France, Belgium and Luxembourg, and adjacient parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

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Roman temple

Ancient Roman temples were among the most important buildings in Roman culture, and some of the richest buildings in Roman architecture, though only a few survive in any sort of complete state.

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Roman theatre (structure)

Roman theatres derive from and are part of the overall evolution of earlier Greek theatres.

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Romanization (cultural)

Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallo-Roman_Theater_of_Lisieux

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See also

Ancient Roman theatres in France

Roman Gaul

Roman amphitheatres in France

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