Vesunna

Vesunna was a town in the Roman Empire province of Gallia Aquitania. The modern city of Périgueux, in the Dordogne department in southwestern France, roughly corresponds with Vesunna's location.

The original settlers of the area were the Petrocorii, Gallic people who came from the north around 200 BC. After the Roman Republic invaded and conquered the area, the Petrocorii left this post. Romans adopted the settlement, establishing the actual town of Vesunna in about 16 BC. This Roman city was eventually embellished with amenities such as temples, baths, amphitheaters, and a forum. At the end of the third century, the Romans built ramparts around the city, and the town took the name of Civitas Petrocoriorum.

Remnants of the Vesone domus (Vesunna dome) were found in an archeological dig in 1959, and have become a tourist attraction for modern Périgueux.

Vesunna in "Death in Vesunna"

Vesunna was a town in the western part of the Roman province of Aquitaine. It was situated on the right bank of the river Isle. In AD 147, two men from the 21st century, Lou Muller and Mark Alvarez, arrived in Vesunna, intent on obtaining copies of old texts that were long lost in their own time. They killed one Clodius Eprius for his copy of Sophokles' Aleadai, but were ultimately apprehended by the Roman authorities and trapped in the past.