TY  - BOOK
N2  - "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.
AB  - "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.
T1  - Bathing in public in the Roman world /
DA  - ©1999.
CY  - Ann Arbor :
AU  - Fagan, Garrett G.,
CN  - DG97
CN  - DG97
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - ©1999.
ID  - 1380695
KW  - Public baths
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - Baths
KW  - Roman World
KW  - Social Behavior
KW  - Bains publics
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - Antiquities.
KW  - Inscriptions.
KW  - Manners and customs.
KW  - Public baths.
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Baden (hygiëne)
KW  - Romeinse oudheid.
KW  - Sociale aspecten.
KW  - Public baths
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - Bains publics
KW  - Bad.
SN  - 0472108190
SN  - 9780472108190
TI  - Bathing in public in the Roman world /
ER  -