Week 9

Question 1

What did Roman’s call their bathhouses?

Answer 1

therma/thermae

Question 2

What is a Apodyterium?

Answer 2

Niches as lockers to put belongings

Question 3

What is a Palaestra?

Answer 3

Large open field surrounded by peristyles for physical exercise

Question 4

What is a Natatio?

Answer 4

Exposed swimming area with no heating

Question 5

What is a Frigidarium?

Answer 5

Cold/plunge pool indoors, mimics being outdoors

Question 6

What is a Caldarium?

Answer 6

Hottest room from the furnace and sun with hypocastum

Question 7

What is a Strigil?

Answer 7

Tool to scrape off body to clean self, with oil

Question 8

Describe the Baths of Diocletian?

Answer 8

3rd c. CE, One of the largest bath houses. Turned into a church but now museum with richest epigraphic collection. Ostrigoths cut aqueducts in 5th c. CE but Aqua Marcia as replacement.

Question 9

Describe the Baths of Caracalla

Answer 9

2nd c. CE and 2nd largest bath. Horti Asiniani (Augustan period) as garden area first. Greek and Latin libraries to strengthen body and mind. Closed in 6th c. CE from Ostrigoths.

Question 10

What were the three types of bath houses?

Answer 10

Forum, Central, and Stabian*

Question 11

What were the four bathhouses discussed?

Answer 11

Baths of Diocletian, Nero, Trajan, and Caracalla