Bathing in public in the Roman world / Garrett G. Fagan.
1999
DG97 .F34 1999 (Mapit)
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Title
Bathing in public in the Roman world / Garrett G. Fagan.
Author
Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-
ISBN
0472108190 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472108190 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472108190 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
DG97 .F34 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
391.6/4
Summary
"For the Roman, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal context." "This book is the first to study the Roman public bathing experience primarily as a historical, social, and cultural phenomenon rather than a technological or architectural one. The focus here is on the bathers not the baths. Fagan reconstructs what a trip to a Roman bath was like, and he asks when and why the baths became popular at Rome, who built and maintained the abundant bathing establishments, what the physical environment was like, what the social components of the bathing experience were, and what the sociological function of the baths was in the Roman empire's rigidly hierarchical social order." "Since comparative evidence from other bathing cultures is also employed, it will be of interest to social anthropologists and historical sociologists."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-390) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
1. A Visit to the Baths with Martial
2. The Growth of the Bathing Habit
3. Accounting for the Popularity of Public Baths
4. Baths and Roman Medicine
5. Bath Benefactors 1: Rome
6. Bath Benefactors 2: Italy and the Provinces
7. The Physical Environment: Splendor and Squalor
8. The Bathers
Epigraphic Sample
A. Constructional Benefactions
B. Nonconstructional Benefactions
C. Nonbenefactory Texts
D. Greek Texts
App. 1. The Spread of Public Bathing in the Italian Peninsula to ca. A.D. 100
App. 2. The Distribution of Nonimperial Baths in Rome
App. 3. Parts of Baths Mentioned in the Epigraphic Sample.
2. The Growth of the Bathing Habit
3. Accounting for the Popularity of Public Baths
4. Baths and Roman Medicine
5. Bath Benefactors 1: Rome
6. Bath Benefactors 2: Italy and the Provinces
7. The Physical Environment: Splendor and Squalor
8. The Bathers
Epigraphic Sample
A. Constructional Benefactions
B. Nonconstructional Benefactions
C. Nonbenefactory Texts
D. Greek Texts
App. 1. The Spread of Public Bathing in the Italian Peninsula to ca. A.D. 100
App. 2. The Distribution of Nonimperial Baths in Rome
App. 3. Parts of Baths Mentioned in the Epigraphic Sample.