CLAS 1140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Strigil, Caldarium, Fire Department
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Domestic concerns: daily life, telling time: sundial, day=12 equal parts (hours) Unit 2 bread and circuses study guide: apodyterium (dressing room, tepidarium (strigil, massage, depilation, caldarium (sauna): bath water, heating the water hypocaust, frigidarium: cool water pool. Great fire (64 ad): 1/3 of rome destroyed: fire brigade (augustus): 7k vigils, night patrol with buckets of water, ladders, axes, crime, noise, floods. 3 dozen floors in rome, water + wood = mildew: sanitation: filthy streets, excrement/urine, corpses of destitute, animal cadavers, disease, malnutrition (rickets, scurvy) disease-spreaders: carcasses, excrement, scavengers, contamination of water supply, overcrowding = quicker transmission. Housing styles: housing (atristocratic, main archeological evidence: pompeii, floor plan: 2 stories. Large room, lighted by opening in roof, formal room where guests were received and clients assembled for morning visit to patron, also for family occasions, shallow pool below opening in roof to collect rainwater. Small, dark, poorly ventilated, slaves prepared meals, baking done in ovens.
