1. An Overview of Ancient Roman Bathhouses
... , as parading your slaves at the baths was a way to show your elevated social status. There were three principal rooms within in the Roman baths, including the hot room, the cold room and the warm anteroom. The hot room, called the Caldarium, was a very hot and steamy room consisting of a bath of hot water sunk into the floor, where patrons would ... hot room. The specialty of a Tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat, directly affecting the human body from the walls and floor. The cold room, called the Frigidarium, consisted of a small pool of cold water or sometimes...
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