RIHLA #8

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**Roman baths and bath rituals**

Roman baths were the foundation of social life
-Public baths were preferred by most Romans
-Swimming
-interactive sports
-women could socialized with each other

Bathhouses
-Apodyterium used for clothes storage
-tepidarium used for a mild sauna
-caldarium used as a hot bathing room
-frigidarium used as a cold bathing room
-unctorium used for rubbing oil

Bathing essentials
-warm anteroom
-hot bath
-cold bath
-rubbing and anointing with oil

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