Thermae (Stage 9)      Write the answers in full sentences.

A)

1. Did it cost anything to enter the public baths?

2. Which area (without a roof) would a man probably go to first?

3. What different things would a man like Caecilius do in this area of the baths?

4. What was the name of the room where he changed?

5. Who took his clothes while he was in the baths and looked after them for him?

6. What type of room was a tepidarium?
    Did it have a bath?

7. After this he would go to the caldarium.
    What type of room was a caldarium?
    Did it have a bath?

8. What was the olive oil used for? What was the strigil used for?

9. The frigidarium was the cold room. Where else was there cold water?

B)

1. List in a column five different types of noise that Seneca said he could hear as he lived next door to some public baths. e.g. 1. the cries of a cake-seller


                1.   the cries of a cake-seller
                2.
                3.
                4.   
                5.
2.     There were lots of different types of noise in those baths. What does this tell us about what the baths were like? (2)

C) Copy the plan of the hypocaust at the top of page 127.

Extra questions:   
a) What did the word hypocaust mean originally (in Ancient Greek)?
b) Can you think of a disadvantage of having heating under the floor?

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