Bathing in Public in the Roman World
Author: Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780472088652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn uninhibited glance into the extensive baths of Rome
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The Story of Roman Bath
Author: Patricia Southern
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1445615908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of Roman Bath
Roman Baths in Britain
Author: Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-06-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1445612305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fascinating story of Britain’s Roman Baths right up to the present day.
Roman Bath Discovered
Author: Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher:
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780752419282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe finding, in 1727, of the gilded bronze head of the Roman goddess Minerva during the construction of the famous Stall Street led to the discovery of the Roman temple and of the baths. Since then archaeologists have discovered more and more about the Roman city of Aquae Sulis. In this new edition of a work first published almost thirty years ago, Professor Cunliffe brings the story right up to date. He deals in detail with the temple and its precinct and with the 'curse tablets' which have been deciphered to reveal the thoughts of Roman visitors. He then explains just how the bathing establishment was organized and explores the relationship between the spa and the town. We learn what life was like for the local inhabitants as well as for the visitors. Finally, he charts the process of decline and decay during the 300 years after the Roman period.
The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
Author: Eleri H. Cousins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 110849319X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.
Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity
Author: Fikret K. Yegül
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text reviews and analyzes the structure, function and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom underwent in Late Antiquity and in Byzantine and Islamic cultures.
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Author: Victoria Rimell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-05
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1316368602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.
Roman Bath
Author: Peter Davenport
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0750996439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported. But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were laid open to view, but little was published. From the 1950s, interest accelerated, professionals and amateurs collaborated, and there was never a decade in which some new discovery was not made. The first popular but authoritative presentation of this work was made in 1971 and updated several times. However, from the 1990s to the present there has been some sort of archaeological investigation almost every year. This has thrown much new and unexpected light on the town of Aquae Sulis and its citizens. In this book, Peter Davenport, having been involved in most of the archaeological work in Bath since 1980, attempts to tell the story of Roman Bath: the latest interim report on the 'Three Hundred Year Dig'.
Sacred Britannia
Author: Miranda Aldhouse-green
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 050025222X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling new account of religion in Roman Britain, weaving together the latest archaeological research and a new analysis of ancient literature to illuminate parallels between past and present Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world—Britain. The expeditions of Julius Caesar and the Claudian invasion of 43 CE, up to the traditional end of Roman Britain in the fifth century CE, brought fundamental and lasting changes to the island. Not least among these was a pantheon of new classical deities and religious systems, along with a clutch of exotic eastern cults, including Christianity. But what homegrown deities, cults, and cosmologies did the Romans encounter in Britain, and how did the British react to the changes? Under Roman rule, the old gods and their adherents were challenged, adopted, adapted, absorbed, and reconfigured. Miranda Aldhouse- Green balances literary, archaeological, and iconographic evidence (and scrutinizes the shortcomings of each) to illuminate the complexity of religion and belief in Roman Britain. She examines the two-way traffic of cultural exchange and the interplay between imported and indigenous factions to reveal how this period on the cusp between prehistory and history knew many of the same tensions, ideologies, and issues of identity still relevant today.
Enid Blyton, and Her Enchantment with Dorset
Author: Andrew Norman
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780857040701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnid Blyton first visited Dorset at Easter 1931 with her husband Hugh Pollock; she was aged 34 and pregnant with her first child. She would later return to spend many holidays in, and around the town of Swanage in South Dorset's Isle of Purbeck, together with her two daughters: Gillian (born 1931) and Imogen (born 1935), and later with her second husband Kenneth Darrell Waters.What was it about this particular region that would draw her back, time and time again, and what pursuits did she choose to follow whilst she was here? In order to find out, we accompany Enid as she walks, swims off Swanage beach, plays golf, takes the steam train to Corfe Castle, and the paddle-steamer to Bournemouth.Although Enid's stories were drawn from her imagination, this itself was fed and nurtured by external experiences - in the case of the 'Famous Five' books, largely by what she had seen in Dorset. Whereas it is probably futile to attempt to match a specific real life location with her fictitious ones, nevertheless it is a fascinating exercise to retrace her steps, and having done so, to reflect on those topographical features which might have impinged upon her subconscious (or what she called her 'under mind') whilst she was writing the stories. It is often the case that when an author bases his work on a certain place, the subsequent discovery by the reader of that place's true identity may come as a disappointment. Not so in this case, for the real life locations are equally as interesting and exciting as the nail biting adventures of 'The Famous Five' themselves!
