CLA233H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Olive Oil, Caldarium, Frigidarium
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Romans were very anal about baths compared ot others. Romans started building amazing bathhoiuses, they used ot be very dark until windows and more light (so you could see people naked) Handout is a layout of the roman bathhouse of pompeii, romans would clean themselves at the end of the day. Its considered recreation (end of work begginig of dinner). Steam bathing and exofilation of the body, most of the cleansing were done in steam rooms which woud make your pores exhume the dirt. Also the olive oil (remove dirt and dead skin) There may be as many as 4 different rooms throughout the cleaning process (dpeneding on your sttaus?). there would rooms based on heat, then plunging room s(cold or hot, sometimes sea water) Frigidarium, tepidarium, and caldarium are the rooms for varying temperatures of sauna. Palaestra is the exercise room (run, jump, play ball games). Romans had a obsession with perfume, after bath you would put on perfume.
