Pompeii - Baths Flashcards
What were the cold baths called?
Frigidarium
What were the warm baths called?
Tepidarium
What were the hot baths called?
Caldarium
What was the changing room called?
Apodyterium
What was the exercise area/ outside gardens called?
Palaestra
How much was entry to the baths?
Entry was very cheap and could be subsidised by politicians in their desire to seek popularity for elections
Could women visit the baths?
Women visited the baths however they were often given a separate area in the baths
What did bathers do about their belongings in the Apodyterium?
Bathers could pay to have a slave watch over their belongings in the Apodyterium
What did bathers have to do in the Caldarium?
Bathers had to wear sandals when in the Caldarium as the hot floor could burn their feet.
Who was a masseur?
A masseur (either a personal slave or someone employed by the baths) would rub olive oil into the skin and scrape it all off with a strigil (blunt metal scraper)
How did the hypocaust work?
The hypocaust was a furnace lit by slaves produced heat that circulated under the raised floor of the baths due to columns. Vents or flues allowed the walls to be heated as the heat rose.
What was the Roman word for baths?
Thermae
What other reasons for visiting the baths were there?
- Business meetings
- Socialising
- To visit the gardens
- Poets, musicians, acrobats, jugglers came seeking personal fame
- Prostitues visited the baths
- Some baths had libraries
- Food sellers
