How did Roman Baths work?

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This video explores how Roman baths were built, supplied with water, heated, and cleaned.
A special thanks to Woosh Drains of Astoria, Queens for sponsoring this video!

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:03 Designing baths
2:34 Supplying water
5:11 Heating baths
8:33 Cleaning baths
10:40 A working bath

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I love that Steve from Woosh Plumbing is a sponsor again.

christophercohen

Another quality video. Grateful for the plug. Aside from lacking filtration, these baths were quite sophisticated. It must have been an amazing experience back then to be in a hot bath for the first time.

wooshpipeanddrainco.

It's like the Romans took the mixed-purpose Greek gymnasia and asked _"But what if we apply an overwhelming amount of engineering to it?"_

QuantumHistorian

Curiously, Hadrian liked to go to public baths like a normal person. Imagine being an ordinary Roman who has just entered the hot springs to have a relaxing morning, only to pass in the hallway the most powerful man in the world naked and saying "Good morning, citizen." 😅

TetsuShima

_BEST_ video sponsor. Makes me want to go to Queens just so I can clog a toilet to support the channel.

johnladuke

Now you need a set of episodes on Roman Glass.

MartinCHorowitz

Questions:
1) Was there man and female sections?
2) Did they have need for lifeguards?
3) Did they have any water sports?

Radhaugo

Smoothest sponsor transition ever.

Your money was well spent, Steve.

Sabrowsky

Fascinating as usual. However, the idea of immersing oneself in that odious soup gives me the chills.

mikki

Paintings, etc. always show Roman bathers scraping off the oil and dirt right next to the pools. With thousands of bathers doing this every day, the oil would have accumulated everywhere, made the floors slippery and dirtied every surface. It would make more sense if this “cleansing” part of the bathing was done in a special area where the oil and dirt could be controlled and periodically cleaned out, like grease traps in modern restaurants, rather than right around the pools. Is there any evidence for any practice or structure like this?

kimberlyperrotis

That was the best segway into an advertisement I've ever seen on youtube.

mathtonight

The renderings of what these baths would have looked like is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen

cassiemeyer

Augustus: "I'm glad that my new public baths are being a resounding success. Even my daughter Julia loves them, don't you think, Crispus?"
Crispus: "Yes, Caesar. Especially those on the Aventine" 😉
Augustus: "But on the Aventine there are only baths for me...F*ck"

KingMordred

You cover many interesting topics about how the classical world functioned. But may I suggest a topic for the future: How did slavery work in Greece and Rome? How were slaves bought and sold? How was new raw material obtained? How were slaves identified? I have heard that slaves were emancipated from time to time. What was the procedure? How could an emancipated slave prove it? How could a runaway slave be distinguished from an emancipated slave or an enslaved slave going about his owner's business? If you have already covered this topic, please provide me with a link.

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