{"id":374,"date":"2010-05-28T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:25:59","slug":"ancient-roman-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/ancient-roman-baths\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient Roman culture, bathing held a major significance in ancient Roman society. Bathing was a communal activity. Business deals, politics and even courtships between lovers were carried out in the public baths.\u00a0The bathhouses even contained rooms for\u00a0libraries, commercial stores like perfume shops, and theaters. There were also separate entrances for women, men and slaves.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>thermae<\/strong> were public bathhouses run by the state.\u00a0The thermae were supplied by water from an aqueduct. Small bathhouses were called <strong>balneum<\/strong> and privately owned. Both types of baths required patrons to pay a fee before entering. The largest bathhouses were the <strong>Baths of Diocletian<\/strong>. This video shows the magnitude of this\u00a0bathhouse\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Santa Maria Degli Angeli \/ Baths of Diocletian\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ppWp3vH49vM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Other great\u00a0bathhouses are\u00a0<strong>Baths of Caracalla<\/strong>. Only the ruins remain, but this bathhouse has been the inspiration for the architecture of Penn Station in New York :<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caracalla Roman Baths\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3wkuBO_irEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ancient Roman culture, bathing held a major significance in ancient Roman society. Bathing was a communal activity. Business deals, politics and even courtships between lovers were carried out in the public baths.\u00a0The bathhouses even contained rooms for\u00a0libraries, commercial stores like perfume shops, and theaters. There were also separate entrances for women, men and slaves&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/ancient-roman-baths\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9131],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancient-roman-baths"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/latin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}