Thermae, the Glossary
In ancient Rome, (from Greek, "hot") and (from Greek) were facilities for bathing.[1]
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Ancient Baths of Alauna
The ancient baths of Alauna are a Gallo-Roman thermal complex located in the French commune of Valognes in the north of Manche.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Ancient Roman bathing
Bathing played a major part in ancient Roman culture and society. Thermae and ancient Roman bathing are ancient Roman baths.
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Ancient Roman engineering
The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments.
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Ancient Roman technology
Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD).
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Apodyterium
In ancient Rome, the apodyterium (from ἀποδυτήριον, "undressing room") was the primary entry in the public baths, composed of a large changing room with cubicles or shelves where citizens could store clothing and other belongings while bathing. Thermae and apodyterium are ancient Roman baths.
Apoxyomenos
Apoxyomenos (plural apoxyomenoi: the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil.
Aquae Calidae, Bulgaria
Aquae Calidae (Latin for warm waters, Акве Калиде), also known as Therma and Thermopolis in the Middle Ages, was an ancient town in Thrace located in the territory of today's Bulgarian port city of Burgas on the Black Sea.
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Aqueduct (water supply)
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
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Atlas (architecture)
In European architectural sculpture, an atlas (also known as an atlant, or atlante or atlantid; plural atlantes), Michael Delahunt,, 1996–2008.
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Baptisterium
In classical antiquity, a baptisterium (βαπτιστήριον) was a large basin installed in private or public baths into which bathers could plunge, or even swim about. Thermae and baptisterium are ancient Roman baths.
Bath, Somerset
Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.
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Baths of Caracalla
The Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy, were the city's second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, after the Baths of Diocletian.
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Baths of Diocletian
The Baths of Diocletian (Latin: Thermae Diocletiani, Italian: Terme di Diocleziano) were public baths in ancient Rome.
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Baths of Titus
The Baths of Titus or Thermae Titi were public baths (Thermae) built in 81 AD at Rome, by Roman emperor Titus.
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Baths of Trajan
The Baths of Trajan (Terme di Traiano) were a massive ''thermae'', a bathing and leisure complex, built in ancient Rome and dedicated under Trajan during the kalendae of July 109, shortly after the Aqua Traiana was dedicated.
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Băile Herculane
Băile Herculane (Aqua Herculis; Herkulesbad; Herkulesfürdő; Herkulovy Lázně, Lazarethane) is a spa town in Romanian Banat, in Caraș-Severin County, situated in the valley of the Cerna River, between the Mehedinți Mountains to the east and the Cerna Mountains to the west, elevation.
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Bliesbruck Baths
The Bliesbruck baths, discovered in the commune of the same name in the French department of Moselle, in the Grand Est region, are a Roman thermal complex that was in operation from the late 1st century to the mid-3rd century.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
Brazier
A brazier is a container used to burn charcoal or other solid fuel for cooking, heating or cultural rituals.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Burgas
Burgas (Бургас), sometimes transliterated as Bourgas, is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a population of 203,000 inhabitants, while 277,922 live in its urban area.
Caldarium
Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor. A caldarium (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex. Thermae and caldarium are ancient Roman baths.
Castra
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word castrum (castra) was a military-related term.
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (1 August – 13 October) was a Roman emperor, ruling from to 54.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.
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Culture of ancient Rome
The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome.
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CyArk
CyArk (from "cyber archive") is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Oakland, California, United States founded in 2003.
De architectura
De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
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Diocletian window
Diocletian windows, also called thermal windows, are large semicircular windows characteristic of the enormous public baths (thermae) of Ancient Rome.
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Domus
In ancient Rome, the domus (domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Exedra
An exedra (exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing.
Farnese Bull
The Farnese Bull (Toro Farnese), formerly in the Farnese collection in Rome, is a massive Roman elaborated copy of a Hellenistic sculpture.
Farnese Hercules
The Farnese Hercules (Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian but he may have worked in Rome.
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Frigidarium
A frigidarium is one of the three main bath chambers of a Roman bath or thermae, namely the cold room. Thermae and frigidarium are ancient Roman baths.
Gaius Asinius Pollio
Gaius Asinius Pollio (75 BC – AD 4) was a Roman soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic, and historian, whose lost contemporaneous history provided much of the material used by the historians Appian and Plutarch.
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Gladiator
A gladiator (gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
Greek baths
Greek baths were bath complexes suitable for bathing and cleaning in ancient Greece, similar in concept to that of the Roman baths.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Groin vault
A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
Gymnasium (ancient Greece)
The gymnasium (gymnásion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games.
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Hammam Essalihine
Hammam Essalihine (حمامالصالحين Ḥammām aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn, lit. "The Bath of the Righteous"; Aquae Flavianae) is an ancient Roman bath situated in the Aurès Mountains in the El Hamma District in the Khenchela Province of Algeria. Thermae and Hammam Essalihine are ancient Roman baths.
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Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities is an English-language encyclopedia on subjects of classical antiquity.
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Harry Thurston Peck
Harry Thurston Peck (November 24, 1856 – March 23, 1914) was an American classical scholar, author, editor, historian and critic.
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Hexameter
Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables).
History of water supply and sanitation
The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistical challenge to provide clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization.
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Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
Hypocaust
A hypocaust (hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.
Janet DeLaine
Janet DeLaine is Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
Labrum (architecture)
The labrum in architecture was a large water-filled vessel or basin with an overhanging lip.
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Laconicum
The laconicum (i.e. Spartan, sc. balneum, "bath") was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. Thermae and laconicum are ancient Roman baths.
Latrine
A latrine is a toilet or an even simpler facility that is used as a toilet within a sanitation system.
Liternum
Liternum was an ancient town of Campania, southern central Italy, near "Patria lake", on the low sandy coast between Cumae and the mouth of the Volturnus.
Lysippos
Lysippos (Λύσιππος) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC.
Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author.
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (BC – 12 BC) was a Roman general, statesman and architect who was a close friend, son-in-law and lieutenant to the Roman emperor Augustus.
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Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
Milestone
A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary.
Mosaic
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface.
Museo di Capodimonte
Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
Oecus
Oecus is the Latinized form of Greek oikos, used by Vitruvius for the principal hall or salon in a Roman house, which was used occasionally as a triclinium for banquets.
Palaestra
A palaestra (or; also (chiefly British) palestra; παλαίστρα.) was any site of an ancient Greek wrestling school.
Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963)
Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR).
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Pliny the Younger
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 –), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Portico
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
Public bathing
Public baths originated when most people in population centers did not have access to private bathing facilities.
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Quadrans
The quadrans or teruncius was a low-value Roman bronze coin worth one quarter of an as.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero (102 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman and military leader, as well as the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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Ravenglass Roman Bath House
Ravenglass Roman Bath House (also known as Walls Castle) is a ruined ancient Roman bath house at Ravenglass, Cumbria, England.
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Roman Baths (Bath)
The Roman Baths are well-preserved thermae in the city of Bath, Somerset, England.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
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Roman villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Scipio Africanus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236/235–) was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War.
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Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
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Serdika
Serdika or Serdica (Bulgarian: Сердика) is the historical Roman name of Sofia, now the capital of Bulgaria.
Shower
A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water.
Soap
Soap is a salt of a fatty acid (sometimes other carboxylic acids) used for cleaning and lubricating products as well as other applications.
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Sofia
Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.
Spa town
A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring).
Statius
Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.
Strigil
The strigil (Latin: strigilis) or stlegis (στλεγγίς, probably a loanword from the Pre-Greek substrate) is a tool for the cleansing of the body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil that was applied before bathing in Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
Sudatorium
In architecture, a sudatorium is a vaulted sweating-room (sudor, "sweat") or steam bath (Latin: sudationes, steam) of the Roman baths or thermae. Thermae and sudatorium are ancient Roman baths.
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities.
Tepidarium
The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system. Thermae and tepidarium are ancient Roman baths.
Thermae Romae
is a Japanese manga series by Mari Yamazaki.
Tribune
Tribune was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome.
Varna, Bulgaria
Varna (Варна) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in the Northern Bulgaria region.
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Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani; Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome.
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Vestibule (architecture)
A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.
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Victorian Turkish baths
The Victorian Turkish bath is a type of bath in which the bather sweats freely in hot dry air, is then washed, often massaged, and has a cold wash or shower.
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Vitruvius
Vitruvius (–70 BC – after) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.
See also
Ancient Roman baths
- Aïn Doura Baths
- Allianoi
- Ancient Roman bathing
- Apodyterium
- Aquae Iasae
- Bagnaccio
- Baptisterium
- Barbara Baths
- Baths of Antoninus
- Baths of Arcadius
- Baths of Hercules
- Baths of Zeuxippus
- Caldarium
- Cross Bath
- Forum Baths, Trier
- Frigidarium
- Għajn Tuffieħa Roman Baths
- Hammam Essalihine
- Laconicum
- Licinian Baths
- List of Roman public baths
- Pilae stacks
- Roman Baths
- Roman Baths of Ankara
- Roman Baths, Beirut
- Roman Thermae (Varna)
- Roman baths of Gafsa
- Sudatorium
- Suspensura
- Tepidarium
- Thermae
- Trier Imperial Baths
Hydrotherapy
- Ai Chi
- Aquajogging
- Aquatic therapy
- Arctic Spas
- Bad Ragaz Ring Method
- Canine hydrotherapy
- De balneis Puteolanis
- Halliwick
- Halotherapy
- Harold Dull
- Hot tub
- Hydropathic hotels
- Hydrotherapy
- Ice bath
- Jacuzzi
- Kneipp facility
- Mineral spa
- New York Hydropathic and Physiological School
- Thalasso (film)
- Thalassotherapy
- Thermae
- Water aerobics
- Waterdance
- Watsu
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae
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