Sources - The Baths Flashcards
Who went to the baths
Men and women of all social classes
Men and women bathed ____________
Separately
What happened if the buildings were too small to have separate facilities
Men and women would bathe at different times
Lower class people used the public baths where the entry fee was _________. They probably did not go every day
Small
What would wealthier men do
Join private bathing clubs, where the fee was higher
How often would wealthier men go to the baths
Probably every day
When did the Romans go to the baths
In the afternoon
What would Romans do at the baths
Meet friends and chat Exercise and train Swim Bather and have a massage Have their armpits plucked Listen to public speaker like philosophers or poets Eat snacks such as sausages or nuts
The bathing process:
First: Check in at the apodyterium (__________ _______). Pay the entrance fee and check in the clothes with a ________ or leave it in a wooden ___________
Changing room
Slave
Locker
The bathing process:
Secondly: Move into the palaestra (___________ ________).
Exercise ground
The bathing process:
Thirdly: Move into the tepidarium (________ _______)
The warm room
The bathing process:
Fourthly: Enter the caldarium (______ _______)
The hot room
The bathing process:
Fifthly: Enter the frigidium (_______ ______)
Cold pool
The bathing process:
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- Changing room
- Exercise ground
- Warm room
- Hot room
- Cold pool
In the palaestra you can: _______ in the outdoor swimming pool, play ______ in the __________ alley, exercise with ________ or a _______, or _________ on the sandy surface
Swim Bowls Bowling alley Weights Discus Wrestle
What did the Romans do in the Tepidarium
Chat to friends
A ________ heated the tepidarium
Brazier
What did the Romans do in the caldarium
Sweat
Wallow in a hot tub of water
Rub themselves with olive oil
Massage
What was the caldarium heated by
A hypocaust
What would the Romans do in the frigidarium
Have a quick dip to open up the pores for the rest of the day
What was the hypocaust
An under floor heating system
The hot _____ from the hypocaust rises through flues or chimneys built into the _______. This keeps the walls of the room and also provides a draw for the _______ in the hypocaust
Air
Walls
Fire
The arch and the dome:
The romans used these shapes for the ceilings of the baths for 2 reasons:
It enabled large open rooms to be built
When the steam rose up and condensed on the ceiling, it ran back down the walls rather than straight onto the bathers below
The oil used was _______ oil, perfumed with ___________ such as roses
Olive oil
Flowers
Sometimes he oil bottle was made of _________ or _________. It had a very small ________. Why?
Glass or pottery
Mouth - it ensured all the oil didn’t pour out at once
The oil bottle had a strap or handle which the bather fixed around his ________
Wrist
The strigil was made of ________
Metal
Why was the strigil designed with a blunt edge
To scrape the oil off the skin
The floor of the caldarium was so hot that bathers had to wear what?
Wooden sandals to protect their feet
The latrinae were not as _________ as we would like
Private
Men and women had ___________ lavatories
Separate
In the latrinae, people sat next to each other on a shaped __________ seat. What was underneath the seat?
Wooden
A constantly running stream of cold water to carry the waste away
In front of where you sat in the latrinae was another smaller channel of fresh water, or a basin of water. Why?
To wash your hands
In the latrinae, people wiped themselves with a ________ on a _______. This was reusable. For hygiene reasons, it was kept in a bucket of ________
Sponge on a stick
Vinegar
Originally, baths were designed only for _______
Men
