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The Roman Baths
- They visit as they do not have their own baths
- What they could do
- exercise
- socialise
- clean
- eat
- Rooms
- 1) Entrance
- Pay small admission fee to doorkeeper
- 2) Palaestra
- exercise area
- open, surrounded by colonade
- What they do in this room
- greet friends
- exercise
- throwing a large ball
- wrestling
- fencing with
wooden swords
- Not serious exercise,
just preparation for the
relaxation.
- 3) Apodyterium
- long passage to a
large hall
- changing room
- undress and give
clothes to slave
attendant
- clothes guarded
in recesses
arranged in rows
along the walls
- 4) Tepidarium
- arched doorway to warm room
- Short time sat on benches around the wall
- steamy atmosphere, gently perspiring
- 5) Caldarium
- hot room
- large rectangular marble bath
- filled with hot water
- no soap, so olive oil used
- after a soak,
slave called to rub
with oil
- removed using a
strigil (blunt metal
scraper)
- followed by a massage
- Finally he goes to a
large stone basin and
rinses with cold water
- 6) Frigidarium
- Before dressing a visit
to the cold room was
appropriate
- take a plunge in a
deep circular pool of
unheated water
- Brisk rub down
with a towel
- Heating
- Before they heated water in a furnace and stood
braziers in the tepidarium and calderium to keep up air
temperature.
- not efficient
- no floor heating
- 1st Century BC
- Furnace below floor level
supported by brick columns
- left space for air circulation
- hot bath near furnace to keep
temperature
- fueled by wood
- Flues (channels) built into walls to draw through hot air
- hypocaust
- also used by rich