Baths and Bathing in Classical AntiquityBathing in antiquity elevates a prosaic function to the level of a civic institution for which there is no counterpart in contemporary culture. Enriched by over 500 illustrations, many of them by the author, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity is an important sourcebook for this ancient institution. Through hundreds of examples, it reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom underwent in Late Antiquity and in Byzantine and Islamic cultures. |
Contents
The Greek Gymnasium and the Greek Bath | 6 |
Bathing and Baths in the Roman World | 30 |
The Origins and Early Development | 48 |
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ancient apodyterium apse apsidal Aqua arches architectural ashlar Asia Minor athletic axis Baiae barrel-vaulted bath block bath complex Bath-Gymnasium Complex bathing establishment bathing halls brick building caldarium central century B.C. chambers circular colonnaded connected courtyard cross-vaulted decorated display domed East Baths elements entrance Ephesus excavated exedra flanked floor Forum Baths frigidarium functions furnace Greek gymnasium gymnasia gymnasium gymnastic Hadrianic heated halls Hellenistic hot baths hypocaust idem imperial thermae imperial type inscription Kaiserthermen Krencker laconicum Lambaesis Large Baths marble meters Miletus mosaic natatio niches North Baths Ostia palaestra piers Plan Yegül Pompeii pool projecting public baths rectangular hall Restored Roman baths Rome roof rotunda Sardis semicircular side Small Baths South Baths space square Stabian Baths structure tepidarium terrace Thermae of Caracalla Thermae of Diocletian Thermae of Trajan Thermen thermo-mineral Timgad tion trans vaulted villa Vitruvius walls Ward-Perkins West Baths