23. Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Neil steps into an opulent Roman Villa grand enough to have housed the governor of Roman Britannia and maybe even put up a visiting emperor or two.
Lullingstone villa, in Kent, was built in the first century AD and developed and expanded over the next 300 years or so. Large in size, by anyone’s standard, and decorated with fine mosaic floors and beautiful wall paintings. With some archaeological detective work and painstaking restoration the interiors of this incredible building reveal nothing less than the arrival of Christianity into the British Isles.
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| 0:31.0 | You wear the clothes and you drink the wine and you live in the houses and you have the furniture and you have the mosaic floors. |
| 0:40.0 | In this podcast we're traveling to a building that reveals nothing less than the arrival of |
| 0:47.1 | Christianity into the British Isles. |
| 0:50.9 | Built and expanded over nearly four centuries. |
| 0:54.0 | colossal in size, by anyone's standard and luxurious in decoration. |
| 1:02.0 | Wonderful paintings. luxurious in decoration, wonderful paintings, mosaics, and layers of religion. |
| 1:08.5 | A cult room dedicated to the worship of hallowed spirits. |
| 1:14.0 | Native British gods, water nymphs, |
| 1:18.0 | Zeus and Pegasus, |
| 1:20.0 | secret symbols heralding the rise of a new cult stretching right across the Roman Empire. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm stepping out across Britain to discover 100 remarkable places that have shaped you, me and the whole world. |
| 1:38.2 | I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the British Isles. |
| 1:43.0 | I'll... |
| 1:45.0 | I know in the... |
| 1:47.0 | I know in last week's podcast you took us to a sycamore gap, a beautiful spot on the formidable |
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