The Mansions of the Gods (French: La Domaine des dieux) is the seventeenth volume of the Asterix series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 591-612 in 1971 and translated into English in 1973. With the intent to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar concocts a plan to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony. The colony is to be called the Mansions of the Gods.