Chariots & Baths

Question 1

Thermae

Answer 1

large public baths

Question 2

Balneum

Answer 2

smaller, private baths

Question 3

Apodyterium

Answer 3

-1st stop
-Dressing Room
-Store clothes and shoes and belongings
-Slaves kept watch
-Attendants for the slaveless
-Changed clothes, applied oil

Question 4

Palaestra

Answer 4

-2nd stop
-Large central courtyard
-Used for exercise
-Wrestling, ball, running
-Natatio (swimming pool)
-Surrounded by portico which lead to bathrooms

Question 5

Natatio

Answer 5

swimming pool

Question 6

Destricarium

Answer 6

-3rd stop
-Scrape off dirt and oil before entering baths
-Used a strigil

Question 7

Strigil

Answer 7

flexible scraper tool

Question 8

Tepidarium

Answer 8

-4th stop
-Warm room
-Heated walls and floors
-Room temperature pool
-Pre-soak

Question 9

Caldarium

Answer 9

-5th stop
-Hot room
-Hot tub
-Closest to the furnace
-Hot air, walls, and floors
-Heated by the hypocaust system

Question 10

Frigidarium

Answer 10

-6th stop
-Cold Room

Question 11

Laconicum/Sudatorium

Answer 11

-7th stop
-Sauna Room
-dry or moist heat respectively
-No pool

Question 12

Unctorium

Answer 12

-8th stop
-Massage room
-Skilled Greek masseuse - unctor
-Reapplication of oil
-Massage, then another scrape down
-Back to the apodyterium, then home!

Question 13

Baths of Caracalla & Baths of Diocletian

Answer 13

Significant Roman Bathhouses

Question 14

Ludī Circensēs

Answer 14

-chariot races
-took place at Circus Maximus

Question 15

Circus Maximus

Answer 15

-built by Tarquin the Elder
-could seat 250,000
-Situated between the Palatine and Aventine hills
-panem et circensēs (bread and circuses)
-Free seating for the poor
-Wealthy could purchase shaded seating

Question 16

Factiōnēs

Answer 16

-4 factions, one for each season (red:summer, blue:autumn, green:spring, white:winter)
-Red and White were the ogs
-Blue and Green were the most popular
-Purple and Gold later added by Emperor Domitian

Question 17

Auriga

Answer 17

-charioteers
-could be traded between factions
-could be sponsored
-start career as slaves

Question 18

Carceres

Answer 18

-starting gates
-12 stalls
-lots were drawn
-sealed by spring-loaded gates until the emperor dropped the mappa (a white cloth)

Question 19

Harena

Answer 19

-the racetrack
-named after the sand that covered the hard dirt track
-6.5 football fields long
-little under football field in length

Question 20

Spina

Answer 20

-central barrier they raced around
-turning posts on both end
-decorated with statues and shrines

Question 21

Metae

Answer 21

-turning posts
-most common site of naufragia (shipwrecks/crashes)
-three conical pillars

Question 22

Curriculum

Answer 22

-completed lap
-7 laps made completed race (missus)
-7 laps equaled around 4 miles
-laps were marked by ova et dolphines (eggs and dolphins)

Question 23

Linea Alba

Answer 23

-finish line
-first to cross after 7 laps wins

Question 24

Chariots

Answer 24

-light and wooden
-either 2 horsed (biga) or 4 horsed (quadriga)
-charioteers wrapped reins around waist and balanced on the axle of the chariot

Question 25

Pompa

Answer 25

-opening ceremony

Question 26

Race Freq

Answer 26

-24 races a day
-up to 66 race days a year
-each faction could have up to 3 teams

Question 27

Race Strats

Answer 27

-normal race strats + drugging the opps
-falx (knives) were carried in case reins needed to be caught

Question 28

Scorpus

Answer 28

-raced for green
-won 2048 races
-winningest charioteer of all time
-died at 27 in a crash

Question 29

Gaius Appuleius Diocles

Answer 29

-began with whites at 18
-swapped to green (6 years) then to reds (3 years)
-retired at 42 after 15 years with the reds
-Won 1462 of 4257
-highest paid athlete of all time