CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Aqua Claudia, Roman Engineering, Lead Poisoning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

Document Summary

This video provides an introduction both to the roman cultural experience of using a bathhouse and to. One of most important building in roman empire. Daily ritual that defined what it meant to be roman. Went in to medium heated room, rubbed with oil and dirt. Went to exercise yard, exercised lightly to sweat. Then, many had a slave pluck their body hair. After this, they would go to the pool and socialize. Could last several hours: the film describes roman baths as the most technologically advanced buildings of the ancient world. Hot and cold water piped in from miles away. Rooms of cold and warmth, via heating systems. Understood solar heating, have windows face the sun. Fire burns beneath the room with the bath. The romans perfected the arch, freeing up much interior space which initially would have be filled with columns. Creation of concrete made romans fantastic builders, comes from limestone.