Roman Empire: Roman Bath Houses

The Roman baths are an important and fascinating part of history. Alex Scobie and Paul Veyne had some very different opinions on the baths. Scobie wrote the article “Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World.” Veyne wrote the article called, “Pleasures and Excesses in the Roman Empire. In both articles the writers agree that the baths were not sanitary in the least bit.

“The Roman Baths of Nimes” is written by Henri Cole as a way to express his desire to break free of conformity and social norms established by his environment. Furthermore, it can be regarded as a way to put an end to an internal battle by coming to terms with his true identity. A close reading of the poem helps expose the true message the poet attempts to convey to his reader.

Many centuries before the birth of Christ, the city of Rome grew, prospered, and developed into a thriving Republic. As in most cultures, Rome's buildings became more elaborate and impressive. They developed fantastic building technologies and ideas. The feats of Roman engineers were groundbreaking, and many structures built by this culture still stand today. With knowledge borrowed from the Greeks, Rome made impressive architectural achievements, these were namely major attributes of buildings, colossal structures, and a legacy that would influence later buildings (Cornell and Matthews 11).

A Roman Villa was a upper-class country house built for Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. A Roman Villa is a brilliant architecture complexes and were decorated with paintings and sculpture. A Villa of a wealthy Roman family was much larger and more delightful than a regular standard Roman house. A Roman Villa had multiple rooms. The multiple rooms included a triclinium (dining room), peristyle (garden), impluvium (pool), culina (kitchen), and cubiculum (the bedrooms). Some Roman Villas had sloping roofs, covered in broaded tiles. The Roman Villas windows were covered with blinds of linen, but most likely covered with shutters of wood. The very wealthy had glass windows. Roman villas had water straight piped to them. Lead pipes brought water to the villa.

Dating back to the ancient Greek and Roman times, humans have frequently modified and adjusted their recreational water practices. Sanitization policies have developed over time to combat the waterborne illnesses that have emerged from the use of public bathhouses and pools.

The ancient Roman Colosseum is perhaps the most astonishing wonder in the history of Architecture known to man kind. The Colosseum served to provide a place of entertainment for the people of Rome and dole out harsh punishments portrayed through shows ending with death to menaces of society. The basis for the idea behind the Colosseum began with the Roman Emperor Vespasian who overtook the Emperor Nero to gain control of the Roman Empire. Much like Nero and other emperors during his time, Vespasian developed a reputation for conveying harsh punishment upon the citizens that jeopardized law and order in the empire. Therefore in 69 A.D. he ordered master craftsman to employ gangs of slaves to construct a facility that would satisfy the

During the time of the ancient Roman Empire, bathing was very important to the Romans. It was considered a leisure activity and many citizens viewed bathing as a time of relaxation. Because of its significance, there were many public baths spread throughout the Roman cities. Many Roman citizens could not afford to have baths within their homes, so the government created public baths in which everyone could bathe for a small fee. Eventually, some of the rich built their own smaller bath houses and opened them to the public. However, these privately-owned baths charged a larger fee. But these baths were not only used for bathing, they were also a place to come and relax. The baths consisted of many different rooms, some for bathing others for relaxing. They were constructed with lavish architecture. The Romans baths were a place that all citizens could enjoy.

Baths played a central role in Roman culture and society. Bathing was a common everyday practice that was widely practiced across the social class spectrum. Functioning as a communal activity, bathers shared their bathing and the bath facilities with others regardless of social class. The various sounds and activities from the baths as described by Seneca endorses the idea that bathhouses had a social function equivalent to community centers. Since the bathing process was lengthy, many Romans used this time to converse with other bathers and arrange dinner plans as described by Martial (Yegul, p. 19).

The Government had many ways to provide public services to the community, they had many different things to offer the patricians and plebeians. First off the Government provided roads. Roads helped the Romans move armies, trade goods and communicate. The Romans became adept at constructing roads. The laws of the Twelve Tables insist that the roads be 8 ft wide and 16 ft long. The Government also provided Public Baths. “Roman baths were apart of the day-to-day life in Ancient Rome”. Romans had led via pipes witch had running waiter but they were taxed according to the size of the pipe(s). A large complex sometimes had a gym and a swimming pool. When you're building a Public Bath you have to have good engineering skills because you have to heat the water. Public bath complexes even had a Massagers who would massage you with olive oil. I rated this part of Rome a A+, they found ways to provide different types of public things and those things all supported the citizens in Rome.

The construction of Gothic cathedrals was the result of many circumstances aligning with one another. These circumstances are not limited to the spread of Christianity, the growing wealth in European countries, and the relative peace in the medieval era.

Obviously people today are very aware as to what baths are, but in Ancient Rome it was a privilege to have a bath even in your home. The reason being for this is not everyone had the money, or even a house, to have their own bath. So while the wealthy bathed in the comfort of home, the commoners went to public bath houses. As mentioned earlier, the water for baths comes from the aqueducts, and the water used had to be clean, or healthy, in order for the person bathing stay healthy as well. Again, America uses the same system as the ancient Romans; aqueducts from sources of water that are healthy, then the water is distributed into homes for bathing. The only differences with this system today is that showers are also used, and the "wealthy"

In this paper, I will discuss the development and use of concrete and arches in the Roman era. These two architectural technologies were important the life of Rome. They allowed many beautiful structures to be built, made everyday life more comfortable and are perfect examples of the Roman inventiveness. Arches are part of many structures found in ancient Rome. Use of the arch became popular because of Rome's practical and utilitarian nature.

Roman baths display the typical Roman ability for creating breath-taking interior space using arches, domes, vaults, and buttresses (Cartwright). It was there not only so people could bathe, but for socializing. Roman bath-houses were also provided for private villas, town houses, and forts. The water that supplied the bath houses came from either a stream or an aqueduct. Before reaching the bathing rooms, the water was heated by a log fire.

Ancient Roman dwellings evolved architecturally in time from simple huts in the earliest times, to sophisticated and extremely long-lived structures in the later Republic and Imperial Rome following the annexation of the Greek city-states. This is very evident in many Italian and Greek cities where archaeologists have found different occupational levels, with each lower architectural strata being much more ancient (Lavan, Özgenel, & Sarantis, 2007). Typically, however, Roman architecture refers to the period from the establishment of the Roman Republic (6 century BC) to the relocation of the capital to Constantinople in 330AD. An architectural period supported by two great innovations: the cement and the arch.

The aisled villa is just a villa built in the simple shape of a long