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Bathing in Public in the Roman World

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Bathing in Public in the Roman World - Fagan, Garret G
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For Romans, 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. They went to meet friends, drink wine, pick up sexual partners, and generally while away the idle afternoon hours. Despite the disapproval of the morally superior, the popularity of the baths endured for over a millennium and spread to every corner of the Roman world. This book is the first to study the Roman public bathing experience primarily as a historical, social ...

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Bathing in Public in the Roman World 1999, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI

ISBN-13: 9780472108190

Hardcover