AR105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Tepidarium, Hellenistic Period, Menaechmi

• School: WLU
• Department: Archaeology and Heritage Studies
• Course: AR105
• Professor: Margaret Erskine

Document Summary

Large scale complexes would have a court for ball games: trigon and. Large scale complexes would have an arena for: fencing, wrestling, weightliting, handball. Ater working out, would change and go into the bathing process. *cadarium = hot room, tepidarium = warm room, frigidarium = cold room (taken in any order) *3) sudatorium = sweat-room (laconicum) if it had it. *3) tepidarium = warm room: rub down with unguentum (perfumed olive oil) *4) caldarium = hot room: heated by the hypocaust underloor heaing, hypocaust loor supported on brick pillars = pilae. *horace epistles 2. 1. 156: re greek cultural inluence on romans: graecia capta ferum victorem cepit. , captured greece captured its savage victor. 5th century bc athens theatrical performances presented at fesival of great dionysia. **dramaic performances = ludi scaenici scenic games / stage shows. Inluences on roman drama: *1) greek new comedy of hellenisic age, especially plays of. Menander: *2) atellan farces (atella town in campania)