1. Read the ancient source material in
your booklets, from page 7 to page
19. 9not 14-15)
2. Write, using the sources, a 1.5 to 2
page essay on chariot racing.
The Roman Baths
- Enter through the door to…
- The palaestra (open exercise area)
- Changing room (apodyterium) –
get changed – holes in the wall for
your things, a slave to guard the
stuff
- They exercise in palaestra –
bowling on
‘alley’
- Back to
changing
room,
scraped with
‘strigils’ and
massaged
- Walk
through
shallow bath in order to clean feet
- Swimming pool
- Heated baths
 Men’s and women’s quarters separate
 Caldarium – next to the boiler
 Then the tepidarium
 Frigidarium in men’s quarters – cold
and round
Order;
1) apodyterium – changing
room
2) either a cold bath
(frigidarium) or straight
to warm room
(tepidarium)
3) hot room (caldarium)
This order allows people to acclimatise
themselves, and not feel ill when going
from one extreme to the other.
HYPOCAUST SYSTEM;