Baths, Life and Inluence

Question 0

Bath construct

Answer 0

Tepidarium -warm room

Calderium - hot pool and sauna area

Frigidarium - cold pool last usually visited

Gymnasia and apodyteria - changing rooms

Library

Question 1

Key points

Microcosm

What was Roman society?

Time period suggested

Public baths

Best written sources

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Their point

Answer 2

Prestige for the builders

Patronage of citizens

Designed to awe the users

A show of expensive stones and statues from far away ‘Phrygian marble’

Question 3

What went on?

Answer 3

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