Rooms
Practices
Misc
Crossovers
100
What is the name of the room used to prep for the Caldarium?
Tepidarium
100
What would you do in the thermae?
bathe and socialize (1/2 is fine)
100
What did the Romans build that supplied much of the water for their thermae?
aqueducts
100
Where did the Romans pinch the Palaestra (and the concept of the baths) from?
Greece
200
Where would your belongings be most at risk of being stolen in the baths?
the Apodyterium
200
What would be used to clean in the baths?
Oil
200
What would be used to heat the warm rooms in a bath?
Hypocausts (or sometimes hot springs)
200
What city is named for its thermae?
Bath
300
Where is the hypocaust?
here
300
What's the name of the tool used to remove oil while bathing?
Strigil
300
What bath map was shown in the slideshow?
The baths of Pompeii
300
What city state is the Laconium named after?
Sparta (in the Laconia region)
400
What is the difference between the laconium and the sudorium
Sudorium has water and so it's steamy, laconium is dry
400
What was used as fuel for the Hypocausts?
wood
400
Who was really upset when baths became popular?
Cato the elder (he hates anything new)
400
What New York building was modeled after the Roman frigidarium?
The old Penn Station
500
Which room would sometimes be used for baptisms?
The frigidarium
500
Name 3 things the Palaestra was commonly used for
Fee collection
exercise
Message boards
etc.
500
How much did it cost to enter the bath?
Quadrans (1/4 as)
500
What structure common in the Islamic world is modeled after the Roman Thermae?
Hammam / Turkish Bath