The roman baths: were they just for clenlyness or were therer other resons for them.

Title: The roman baths: were they just for clenlyness or were therer other resons for them.
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The roman baths: were they just for clenlyness or were therer other resons for them.
Did the Romans only use the baths to get clean or were there political and social motivations behind the number of romans regularly going to the baths?" INTRODUCTION The idea of public baths was originally Greek, and the Romans picked up on the idea around the second century B.C. The first palatial bath (Thermae) was built by Agrippa in the Campus Martius. Others were located near the pantheon in Rome, on the slopes of …showed first 75 words of 3394 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3394 total…were used differently according to where they were situated. The evidence indicates that, as leisure centres are in today's society, the baths were a significant part of Roman society. It is, I suggest, true to say that as the baths evolved, so their purposes became more complex, moving from a simple purpose of cleansing to the more complex purposes of social and political interactions, and in the case of Aqua Sulis, a place of healing.

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