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1. "I live over a public bath-house . Just imagine every kind of annoying noise! The sturdy gentleman does his exercise with lead weights ; when he is working hard (or pretending to) I can hear him grunt ; when he breathes out, I can hear him panting in high pitched tones. Or I might notice some lazy fellow, content with a cheap rub-down, and hear the blows of the hand slapping his shoulders. The sound varies, depending on whether the massager hits with a flat or hollow hand. To all of this, you can add the arrest of the occasional pickpocket ; there's also the racket made by the man who loves to hear his own voice in the bath or the chap who dives in with a lot of noise and splashing .“ Seneca
2. The Roman Baths at Stabiae Men’s exercise yard (palaestra) Lavatories Dressing room Dressing room tepidarium tepidarium caldarium caldarium frigidarium sauna furnaces Natatio Colour in the rooms in appropriate colours if you can, e.g. red for caldarium
3. How the baths were heated: Copy this diagram into your books, then describe how it worked.
4. A visitor to the baths would first enter the apodyterium to remove his/her clothes, which would be guarded by a slave.
5. Before going outside to play in the palaestra and then have a bit of a swim in the natatio (swimming pool).
6. First, you might enter the tepidarium to allow the warm water to open up your pores before visiting the masseur. (reconstruction)
8. When you’d been relaxed and had oil scraped off by a masseur, you might return briefly to the tepidarium before going to the hot bath – the caldarium.
9. You could then either visit the sauna, or go to the frigidarium to cool off.
