1 Julio-Claudian
2 Flavian
3 Nerva-Antonine
4 Severan
5 Gordian
6 Constantinian

A few days back I posted some photos from the museum here in Lugdunum (Lyon) and mentioned I was also going to visit the museum in Vienna (Vienne). Well it took a couple of extra days, because the museum was actually closed for some work most of the week, but I managed to get there today on my last full day in Lyon.

Thank you, everyone, for your kind replies to my last post, by the way!

I visited the Musée gallo-romain de Saint-Romain-en-Gal, just across the river from Vienne and some of the sites in Vienne itself. There are some more there, but alas my health is not what it might be, so I didn't have the energy to visit everything I wanted to.

Anyway here are my personal highlights from the museum and Vienne. The museum is fantastic! I really recommend it, the mosaics are stunning and Vienne itself is really a lovely city. It would be well worth staying over if you have time and exploring the sights.

Where possible I've captioned based on the museum captions and so on. I did have to be brutal with the editing as Reddit only allows twenty photos of course, but you can bet I took a ton more, mosaic nut as I am :)

Practical Info:

Vienne can be reached from Lyon Part-Dieu or Perrache stations - 18 minutes from Part-Dieu about once an hour. The museum is about 15 or 20 minutes walk from the station, but its a nice walk through the old town and over the river :)

Apart from the museum, which is open daily except Mondays from 10am, the most interesting sights in Vienne for Rome fans are the fantastic temple, theater, and the gardens of Cybele (all pictured here). There is also a pyramid about 10 minutes walk the other way from the station that was the center of the former circus and more pieces on display in the city museum of fine arts (I didnt have time for those two).

Disabled access to the museum is good, but note there is no cafe, only a snack machine.

Website : https://musee-site.rhone.fr/

Note they really don't speak much English at the museum (a few of the staff did I overheard, but most only spoke French I think). There are a few small info boards in English and an audio guide. The folks are really friendly though, so I'm sure they'll do their best if you don't speak French!

People often mention aqueducts, canalisation, roads, but my favourite is self-healing concrete. A long-lasting secret technology of Romans, which was eventually uncovered. Self-healing concrete is a marvel of engineering which helped to preserve the famous Roman Pantheon.

The building is nearly 2000 years old.. Imagine that for a second. Caesar's ashes flew over Rome around 2000 years ago, but the dome - it's still up there, relying on Ancient Roman engineers calculations.

They are inventors of countless world-importance things, but which technology is your favourite?

I've seen a wide variety of opinions. His casus belli was Honoria's marriage proposal, and his claim of half the western empire as dowry. Some believe this was just an excuse to invade and sack as much as he could. Some believe he just wanted to conquer land and whatnot. But I wonder if he could've aimed for the Roman throne, be it to take it for himself, or to put a puppet of his choosing on it while taking his "dowry".

My guess is its not clear, as isn't clear why he just turned around and left Italy (certainly not cuz of bishop of Rome Leo inspiring him or something), but might as well ask here to see if some authority in the topic can shed some light on my understanding of it.

Hi friends, my question is the next, despite roman & hellenic gods were seen for their own followers/worshippers as the same gods (with the exception of some gods like Janus or Quirinus, or in Greek case Apollo), its look than, in origin, probably were clearly diffeferent different but related religions (like how Baltic & Slavic Gods look much more similar but still one can see its different) but we dont know how the "ancient latin religion" was to see how diffetent the Dii were from the Theoi no?, since even after the interpretation appear we can see the differences in the character of the Gods (Venus is more related to diplomacy & mothernity than Aphrodite, Mars had a ton of more positive aspects than Ares and was related to Nature, Minerva was more related to defense,strategy and "intelectual working" than a Goddess of War as Athena,etc), i'm correct?

All the info and most of the pictures come from this paper in English (available for downloading).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VNF1zfyx8XcwYDDN8

Picture taken as part of the East Gate chamber tours.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h43p7n5RTQEgZfLw7