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The Roman Baths
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GCSE Latin (Roman Entertainment) Mind Map on The Roman Baths, created by mhancoc3 on 13/03/2014.
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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
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