By: Ben Ewing

Function of Baths
 Social Meetings
 Taking Baths
 Restaurant
 Fitness Center
 Bar
 Community Center

Design
 Several Blocks long
 Different Rooms
 Could be different buildings

Toilets
 Public
 Men and Women Share
 Close together

Palaestra
 Exercise Courtyard
 Men and Women Separated
 Work up light sweat
 Trochus for Women
 Ball Sports for men

Apodyterium
 Changing Room
 Slaves watch belongings
 Thieves common visitors

Tepidarium
 Strigiling
 Roman tool to wipe sweat and dirt
 Used oil, not soap
 Done by slave if you had one
 Could get massage
 Hair plucking

Caldarium
 Hottest Room
 Opens pores
 Hot Pool
 Heated by the hypocaust
 Heats the tiles
 Shoes worn to prevent burns

Frigidarium
 Very cold water
 Closes your pores
 Meant as a refresher

Background
 Thermae built by State
 Balneae privately owned
 Social Place
 Like a community center

Baths of Caracella
 Public library
 Swimming pool
 Rome, Italy

Activities
 Entertainment
 Juggling
 Theater
 Poetry
 Philosophy

Baths Heated

Bibliography
 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts
/secondary/SMIGRA*/home.html
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/
 http://crystalinks.com/romebaths.html
 http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/baths.html
 http://darkcreek.com/images/Roman_Public_Toilets_
Ostia.jpg
 http://gillonj.tripod.com/romanbaths/04752f50.jpg
 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qjVEEcyOMu0/SXcIjlQFpB
I/AAAAAAAAAgM/umsISanS7I0/s400/tepidarium.jpg