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Ancient Roman bathing

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receiving a massage and resting), required separated rooms which the Romans built to accommodate those functions. The segregation of the sexes and the additions of diversions not directly related to bathing also directly impacted the shape and form of bathhouses. The elaborate Roman bathing ritual and its resultant architecture served as precedents for later European and American bathing facilities. Formal garden spaces and opulent architectural arrangement equal to those of the Romans reappeared in Europe by the end of the eighteenth century. Major American spas followed suit a century later.
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There were many activities that occurred in a Roman bathing complex that differ from modern conceptions of bathing. It was common for the people of Ancient Rome to spend a lot of time at the baths because of all of the different aspects to the complex, but it is unclear whether or not it was required
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Greek mythology specified that certain natural springs or tidal pools were blessed by the gods to cure disease. Around these sacred pools, Greeks established bathing facilities for those desiring to heal. Supplicants left offerings to the gods for healing at these sites and bathed themselves in hopes
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provided spaces for exercise and athletic competitions. Inside the bathhouses proper, marble mosaics tiled the elegant floors. The stuccoed walls frequently sported frescoes of trees, birds, and other pastoral images. Sky-blue paint, gold stars, and celestial imagery adorned interior domes. Statuary
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developed a primitive steam bath. At Serangeum, an early Greek balneum (bathhouse, loosely translated), bathing chambers were cut into the hillside into the rock above the chambers held bathers' clothing. One of the bathing chambers had a decorative mosaic floor depicting a driver and chariot pulled
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played a major part in ancient Roman culture and society. It was one of the most common daily activities and was practised across a wide variety of social classes. Though many contemporary cultures see bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, bathing in Rome was a communal activity.
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One major component of a visit to the baths was working out and building athleticism. In Roman baths, there was often a palaestra, an outdoor courtyard surrounded by columns, which bathers would utilize like a modern day gym. Some activities that would occur in the palaestra included boxing, discus
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Inside the baths, visitors were usually completely nude, thus removing the indications of class difference usually found in clothing. At times throughout the empire, it was even common for women and men to bathe together at the same time, although there are other indications of separate facilities
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The layout of Roman baths contained other architectural features of note. Because wealthy Romans brought slaves to attend to their bathing needs, the bathhouse usually had three entrances: one for men, one for women, and one for slaves. The symmetry preference in Roman architecture usually meant a
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These Roman baths varied from simple to exceedingly elaborate structures, and they varied in size, arrangement, and decoration. Many historians construct a specific path which bathers would have taken through a Roman bath, but there is no fixed evidence that confirms any of these theories or that
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by four horses, a woman followed by two dogs, and a dolphin below. Thus, the early Greeks used natural features, but expanded them and added their own amenities, such as decorations and shelves. During the later Greek civilization, bathhouses were often built in conjunction with athletic fields.
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Thus, the Romans elevated bathing to fine art, and their bathhouses physically reflected these advancements. The Roman bath, for instance, included a far more complex ritual than a simple immersion or sweating procedure. The various parts of the bathing ritual (undressing, bathing, sweating,
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symmetrical facade, even though the women's area was usually smaller than the men's because of fewer patrons. Usually, solid walls or placement on opposite sides of the building separated the men's and women's sections. Roman bathhouses often contained a courtyard, or
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Roman bathhouses offered amenities in addition to the bathing ritual. Ancillary spaces in the bathhouse proper housed food and perfume-selling booths, libraries, and reading rooms. Stages accommodated theatrical and musical performances. Adjacent
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Although the wealthiest Romans might set up a bath in their townhouses or their country villas, heating a series of rooms or even a separate building especially for this purpose, and soldiers might have a bathhouse provided at their fort (as at
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for a person to spend this much time at every visit to the baths. The process of going to the baths could be described as a cross between working out at the gym, going to the spa, meeting friends for social activities, and bathing.
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The Romans emulated many of the Greeks' bathing practices and surpassed them in the size of their baths. As in Greece, the Roman bath became a focal center for social and recreational activity. With the expansion of the
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Such was the importance of baths to Romans that a catalogue of buildings in Rome from 354 AD documented 952 baths of varying sizes in the city. Public baths became common throughout the empire as a symbol of
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As a social arena, the baths were often used to convene with those of a higher social status. Because both wealthy and poor Romans went to the baths, there was great opportunity for a client to talk to a
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While the baths were enjoyed by almost every Roman, some criticized them. The water was not renewed often and the remains of oil, dirt or even excrement were kept warm, providing a milieu for bacteria.
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that formed the foundation for modern spa procedures. These Aegean people utilized small bathtubs, washbasins, and foot baths for personal cleanliness. The earliest such findings are the baths in the
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While the extremely wealthy could afford bathing facilities in their homes, private baths were very uncommon, and most people bathed in the communal baths (
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an interior courtyard, and in other cases, they placed it in front of the bathhouse proper and incorporated it into the formal approach. Sometimes the
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can corrupt our bodies, but baths, wine, and sex make life worth living"), epitaph of Tiberius Claudius Secundus, CIL VI.15258, Rome, 1st C.)
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The Romans also constructed baths in their colonies, taking advantage of the natural hot springs occurring in North Africa, such as the
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there even was a specific order to bathing practices. However, one of the most commonly interpreted sequences is shown next.
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became part of some bath complexes. In addition, the Romans used the hot thermal waters to relieve their suffering from
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There is little to no evidence that bathhouses originated in Greece at all or even a public washing area or fountains.
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Some of the earliest descriptions of western bathing practices came from Greece. The Greeks began bathing
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Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the 1st century AD
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throwing, weight lifting, and wrestling–activities which are all depicted in mosaics from baths in
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were instead about the associated noise that interrupted his work when he resided above a bath.
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were owned by the state and often covered several city blocks. The largest of these, the
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for a massage with oils and final scraping with metal implements called
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A bronze strigil used to scrape oil and sweat off the body of a bather
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Index

Roman bathing

Baths of Trajan
Bathing
thermae
Romanitas
Cilurnum
Hadrian's Wall
Bearsden fort
Baths of Diocletian

Baths of Caracalla
regimens
palace complex at Knossos
Spartans
Roman Empire
aqueducts

Central Thermae (Herculaneum)

Pompeii
apodyterium
tepidarium
caldarium
frigidarium
strigils
laconicum
palaestra
colonnade
mixed bathing

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