Baths, Life and Inluence Flashcards
Bath construct
Tepidarium -warm room
Calderium - hot pool and sauna area
Frigidarium - cold pool last usually visited
Gymnasia and apodyteria - changing rooms
Library
Key points
Microcosm
What was Roman society?
Time period suggested
Public baths
Best written sources
Something that captures in miniature the characteristics of something much larger e.g. The baths f Roman Siciety
A monarchy headed by an emperor who ruled (over all e,se e.g.the proletarii) through his executive officers I.e. the senate and officers
Trajan to Caracalla CE 98 - 217
Thermae
Vitruvius (detail) Pliny, Seneca
Their point
Prestige for the builders
Patronage of citizens
Designed to awe the users
A show of expensive stones and statues from far away ‘Phrygian marble’
What went on?
The same as outside
Business
Shopping and refreshments, massage, prostitution
Sex
Crime
Slavery
A chance for the young to see and encounter each other ‘the baths provide plenty of private fun for girls - while their guardians sit outside’ Ovid