Roman Baths

Hello!
In this blog entry, I am going to share some facts that I found out about the Roman Baths. We were told to research about this as our Latin homework and I found it really interesting so I thought that I would share it with my readers.

The roman baths are a group of rooms designed for relaxing, bathing, meetings and socializing.
In the baths there would be large paintings on the wall, big statues and magnificent mosaic tile patterns.

In some places a natural spring provided the bath with its water. Other places the water was either piped in or brought to the town by an aqueduct. The water was heated by the central heating system similar to the ones Romans used in their homes; this was called a hypocaust system.

In the public bath there are three main rooms

     A warm room called the Tepidarium

     A hot room called the Caldarium

     A big cold bath called the Frigidarium to swim in

 

Plan of Roman Baths Layout

In the Caldarium, slaves would rub their masters all over with perfumed oil and then scrape it off with a strigil. A strigil is a curved metal tool which is used to scrape the dirt and oil off their master’s skin.

Stages of going to the Baths

First the people would take their clothes off in the changing room.
Next they would relax in the Tepidarium.
After the Tepidarium they would make their way to the Caldarium ( the steam made them sweat).
Then they would go and have their dirt and sweat scraped off by their slave.
Finally they jump into the cold bath in the Frigidarium.

I hope you enjoyed hearing about the Roman Baths.
Bye!