What is the roman baths used for?

Answer 1

first you go in and do excesses then you go in a room that is really hot so you sweat and sit and talk then a slave or them self with a metal scraper and grinding it of then they go in a cold pool

Answer 2

Since most Roman houses had no baths or toilets, the Romans built public toilets and public baths.. The poor lived in the upper floors of the insulae (singular insula) which were apartment blocks six-seven floors high. They lived in small and overcrowded without running water, or cooking facilities. People only went there to sleep. They lived their lives outdoors, ate outdoors, and went to outdoors public toilets and the public baths.

Roman baths were public and had a communal character, acting as a place for socialising. From the second century BC they were one of the main meeting points for people. They could be big monumental buildings which were complexes with many facilities Friends met there, rich people met their clients, and group meals could be arranged. Politicians canvassed there. Baths also had exercise areas, washing areas and massage areas. Bigger baths could have shops, eating outlets, rooms for poetry readings, a library (the baths of Caracalla had two libraries, a Latin one and a Greek one) and host musical and dancing performances The Romans believed that good health came from eating, bathing, massage and exercise, mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy/sound mind in a healthy body). Therefore their baths provided for all of these.. The average length of stay at the baths was two hours.

There was often an outdoor palaestra (gymnasium) for ball games, weight lifting, or throwing the discus. The routine started with exercises, bathing and washing, which was separate from bathing and involved putting on perfumed oils and scraping dead skin off with a stirgil, a small metal tool. Pumice and beech ash were used to treat the skin. Finally bathers went to massage rooms which were done with perfumed oils and special ointments such almond oil and myrrh imported from the East and Egypt.

Bathing was a long process. After undressing in the apodytermium bathers went to the tepidarium which was heated with warm air to prepare for the hot vapour of the baths and for anointing, which was usually done by slaves, and to reacclimatise the body before going back outdoors. They then proceeded into the caldarium, a hot air room, which contained a square-shaped pool with hot water (calida piscina) and a labrum, a round basin with cold water bathers poured on their heads before leaving the room. In imperial times a laconicum or sudatorium was added. This was a very hot, sweating room or sauna. After having opened the pores of the skin in the tepidarium, caldarium and laconicum, bathers went into the frigidarium, which had a pool with cold water, for a cold plunge- bath to close the pores. Finally they went back to the tepidarium to readjust to the outdoors temperature.

Answer 3

The Roman baths were primarily used for getting clean. They were also places where all personal services could be purchased, such as haircuts, hair removal, massages, manicures, etc. They served as exercise arenas and social centers.

Answer 4

for socializing, meeting up with people, and of course.. bathing.

Answer 5

Well they used them as a hangout a place to gossip and well to get clean

Answer 6

Bathing. While bathing was their primary purpose, afterall, they were baths, they also served as social and recreation centers and beauty salons.