Main entry:

Fagan, Garrett G., 1963-2017.

Title & Author:

Bathing in public in the Roman world / Garrett G. Fagan.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999.

Description:

xiii, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-390) and indexes.
1. A Visit to the Baths with Martial -- 2. The Growth of the Bathing Habit -- 3. Accounting for the Popularity of Public Baths -- 4. Baths and Roman Medicine -- 5. Bath Benefactors 1: Rome -- 6. Bath Benefactors 2: Italy and the Provinces -- 7. The Physical Environment: Splendor and Squalor -- 8. The Bathers -- Epigraphic Sample -- A. Constructional Benefactions -- B. Nonconstructional Benefactions -- C. Nonbenefactory Texts -- D. Greek Texts -- App. 1. The Spread of Public Bathing in the Italian Peninsula to ca. A.D. 100 -- App. 2. The Distribution of Nonimperial Baths in Rome -- App. 3. Parts of Baths Mentioned in the Epigraphic Sample.

Summary:

"For the Roman, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal context." "This book is the first to study the Roman public bathing experience primarily as a historical, social, and cultural phenomenon rather than a technological or architectural one. The focus here is on the bathers not the baths. Fagan reconstructs what a trip to a Roman bath was like, and he asks when and why the baths became popular at Rome, who built and maintained the abundant bathing establishments, what the physical environment was like, what the social components of the bathing experience were, and what the sociological function of the baths was in the Roman empire's rigidly hierarchical social order." "Since comparative evidence from other bathing cultures is also employed, it will be of interest to social anthropologists and historical sociologists."-- Jacket.

ISBN:

0472108190 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472108190 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Asian Development Bank
Public baths Rome.
Inscriptions Rome.
Baths history
Roman World history
Social Behavior history
Bains publics Rome.
Antiquities
Inscriptions
Manners and customs
Public baths
Geschichte
Bad
Baden (hygiëne)
Romeinse oudheid.
Sociale aspecten.
Rome Antiquities.
Rome Social life and customs.
Rome Antiquités.
Rome Mœurs et coutumes.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Rome Moeurs et coutumes.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213314
Call No.: DG97 .F3 1999
Status: Available