Baths

 

Entertainments and Baths

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    This page created by Anna Hinkle.

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    RESOURCES

  • Trajan's Rome: The Man,The City, The Empire, by Perry M. Rogers, ed. Aspects of Western Civilization, Problems and Sources in History, vol.1.
    http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/ Trajan/Lesson6/hand3b.html
    A translation of two Roman writers' complaints about the roman baths.

  • Roman Baths 1st century C.E., by Mary Ann Sullivan.
    http://www.kent.wednet.edu/curriculum/ soc_studies/rome/RomanBaths.html/
    Eight pictures of and a brief background about the Aquae Sulis . Excellent reference fo Cambridge Latin Course Unit 3 Stage 21.

  • History of Roman Baths
    http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/mores/ baths/history/index.htm, from Roman Baths, Latin 2, tour, history 123.
    Excellent explanation of the terminology associated with the baths. Links to pictures as a means of enhancing the meanings.

  • Ancient Rome-Ancient and Lost Civilizations
    http://www.crystalinks.com/romebaths.html
    Excellent drawing of a Roman bath.

  • A Day at the Baths, at Nova Online.
    http://www.pbs.org./wgbh/nova/lostempires/ roman/day.html
    A colored and numbered picture which provides links to various rooms of a Roman bath. A written definition is in the left hand column and the link contains a pictoral representation.

  • Roman Baths and Bathing, by Barbara F. McManus.
    http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/baths.html
    An excellent article which covers all aspects of Roman baths and the use of the facility. Excellent links which are illustrated. However, a few links are no longer on site.

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    EXERCISES

  • Bath Exercises
    Creative exercises for Latin students learning about the baths.

    • A resource for students and teachers, created at the Austin College Summer Institute for Foreign Languages, funded by the Sid W. Richardson Foundation of Ft. Worth, Texas. This material may be used for educational purposes but may not be sold (©2002). For information and inquiries, please contact Prof. Robert W. Cape, Jr. (rcape@austincollege.edu).