JUDAIC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Caldarium, Palestra, Hypocaust
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Take home exam will be given the last day of class (in four weeks) Extra credit opportunity 1: 10-12 min presentation of nal paper on nal day (2 pts) Extra credit opportunity 2: 1 bonus point for class evaluation. Everyone today uses running water; this was not so before the romans. Water was an expensive commodity before the romans; needed an instillation to gather water or a spring nearby. Bathhouses combined two innovations: availability and warmth (romans known for engineering and laws) Bathhouses: they now had too much water. Greeks & romans embraced the human body: at center of the culture, no one saw body like this outside of these cultures, may have been separation early on. Greeks & romans embraced sport: we continue this tradtion, gymnasia were greek. Roman decorations: used statuses/mosaics, statuses: there were some of gods, but they were not religious, mosaics, see all this right when you walk into the bathhouse.
