Baths Culture

Question 1

balneae

Answer 1

small private bath

Question 2

tepidārium

Answer 2

warm room, to acclimatize bathers to the difference in temperature between the cold and hot rooms

Question 3

apodytērium

Answer 3

a changing room with stone benches and rows of deep holes in the walls for holding clothes

Question 4

caldārium

Answer 4

hot room, with hot bath and hot air like the modern Turkish bath, best lit room, equipped with basins and tubs. ceiling usually domed to allow condensation to run off

Question 5

frīgidārium

Answer 5

cold room, with cold plunge bath at one side

Question 6

palaestra

Answer 6

exercise ground, in the big public bathing establishments, in the open air with a covered portico around it

Question 7

unguentum

Answer 7

oil which Romans would be rubbed in after exercising, cleanesed and refreshed the skin

Question 8

thermae

Answer 8

big public bath

Question 9

strigilis

Answer 9

metal instrument to remove excess oil from skin