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Greek Baths and Bathing Culture

Author : Sandra K. Lucore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042928978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Greek Baths and Bathing Culture written by Sandra K. Lucore and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the outcome of the first conference to take place on the topic of Greek baths and bathing culture, a central but hitherto neglected area in the field of ancient studies. Fifteen papers by an international group of archaeologists, art historians and ancient historians discuss Greek bathing culture from a socio-historical and cultural-anthropological perspective, resulting in a comprehensive reassessment that elucidates the sophistication of both the architecture and the culture of bathing throughout the Greek world. Individual papers examine bathing in the context of science, medicine and the cultural discourses coded in images on vases, while the majority focus on the archaeological evidence itself, as the crucial component in this reassessment that removes Greek baths from the traditional category of 'primitive predecessors' to Roman baths. From Greece and Egypt in the east, to Sicily, southern Italy and France in the west, new information from recent excavations is brought to bear on a wide range of related issues, including urban contexts, regional variations in experimental design and construction, innovations in technology, and the social meaning of the rise of bathing culture in the Hellenistic period. This better understanding of Greek baths adds a crucial element to the much debated question of the relationship between Greek and Roman bathing culture. This book also provides the first comprehensive catalog of all known Greek public baths (balaneia), including descriptions, plans and bibliographies, as a major reference tool for future comparative research on ancient bathing culture and beyond. catalog and papers combined make this a rich study of a topic of newly recognized significance in the ancient world.

Bathing in Public in the Roman World

Author : Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472088652
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)

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Book Synopsis Bathing in Public in the Roman World by : Garrett G. Fagan

Download or read book Bathing in Public in the Roman World written by Garrett G. Fagan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uninhibited glance into the extensive baths of Rome

Public Baths and Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity

Author : Sadi Maréchal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004418721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Baths and Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity by : Sadi Maréchal

Download or read book Public Baths and Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity written by Sadi Maréchal and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity.

Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity

Author : Fikret K. Yegül
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity by : Fikret K. Yegül

Download or read book Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity written by Fikret K. Yegül and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

Author : David K. Pettegrew
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199369046
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology by : David K. Pettegrew

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology written by David K. Pettegrew and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--

The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara

Author : P. NICHOLSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042945500
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (455 download)

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Book Synopsis The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara by : P. NICHOLSON

Download or read book The Catacombs of Anubis at North Saqqara written by P. NICHOLSON and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 Jacques de Morgan published a map of the Memphite necropolis, showing for the first time a pair of catacombs for mummified dogs. No further information was given and the catacombs remained largely un-investigated until the 21st century. In 2009 the Catacombs of Anubis Project was set up by Cardiff University who worked in collaboration with the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities in an attempt to understand the larger of the two catacombs. This publication describes the work of the Catacombs of Anubis Project. It examines the way in which the catacomb was created and the likely phases of its development in the Late and Ptolemaic periods. The way in which the many thousands of animal mummies were procured is discussed in the light of modern faunal analysis and these results are combined with a new survey of the site to give a picture of the functioning of the cult at Saqqara. Finally, the way in which the monument may have been re-used in the post-pharaonic era is discussed. The results will be of interest to all those interested in animal mummies and in the development of catacombs as well as those concerned with the evolution of the sacred landscape of Saqqara.

The Bath in Greece in Classical Antiquity

Author : Maria-Evdokia Wassenhoven
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 : 9781407309552
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bath in Greece in Classical Antiquity by : Maria-Evdokia Wassenhoven

Download or read book The Bath in Greece in Classical Antiquity written by Maria-Evdokia Wassenhoven and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present study evolved out of an attempt to explore the mechanisms involved in the transformation of a social practice and its spatial context from one cultural, technological and architectural system to another in a given geographical area in classical antiquity. The practice chosen was that of the bath, the two main and overlapping cultural traditions were the Greek and the Roman and the two technological traditions are termed in the present study 'before' and 'after' the hypocaust. The geographical area covered in the study is that of modern Greece with a more detailed analysis of the Peloponnese. Chapter 1 presents the description and classification of the different bathing traditions which appeared in the Greek territory before the 6th century BC, when the first relevant evidence becomes present in the archaeological record. The evolution of bath architecture in Italy, the main characteristics of the Roman bathing tradition, the spatial configuration of the bath in the Roman culture and finally the different kinds of typological classifications used by scholars are described in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 the two basic bathing traditions which appear in Greece in classical antiquity are analyzed following the classification scheme which was described in the introductory chapter. The final chapter looks at the key issues of the Hellenization of the Roman bathing tradition, the Romanization of the bathing traditions of the Greek world and the long term evolution of the bath in antiquity are readdressed in the light of the present research."--Publisher's website.

The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance

Author : Cynthia Kosso
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004173579
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance written by Cynthia Kosso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne HA land, HA(c)lA]ne Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens, Mehmet TaAlAalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.

Bathing in the Roman World

Author : Fikret Yegül
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521549622
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Bathing in the Roman World written by Fikret Yegül and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bathing in the Roman World, Fikret Yegul examines the social and cultural aspects of one of the key Roman institutions. Guiding the reader through the customs, rituals, and activities associated with public bathing, Yegul traces the origins and development of baths and bathing customs and analyzes the sophisticated technology and architecture of bath complexes, which were among the most imposing of all Roman building types. He also examines the reception of bathing throughout the classical world and the transformation of bathing culture across three continents in Byzantine and Christian societies. The volume concludes with an epilogue on bathing and cleanliness in post-classical Europe, revealing the changes and continuities in culture that have made public bathing a viable phenomenon even in the modern era. Richly illustrated and written in an accessible manner, this book is geared to undergraduates for use in courses on Roman architecture, archaeology, civilization, and social and cultural history.

Collective Baths in Egypt 2

Author : Bérangère Redon
Publisher : Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire - IFAO
ISBN 13 : 9782724706963
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Collective Baths in Egypt 2 written by Bérangère Redon and published by Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire - IFAO. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: Over the past decade the Antique and Medieval Baths of Egypt programme of the IFAO and the Balneorient group have conducted multidisciplinary studies of the collective baths and bathing culture of Egyptian societies from the 4th century BC until the Ottoman period. Following an initial volume published in 2009 that served as an introduction to the project, the present publication gathers a collection of in-depth case studies of very recently excavated baths, as well as thematic studies examining bath construction and decoration techniques, and the issue of the fuel used to heat bath buildings. This volume also contains comprehensive analyses of four significant periods of bathing practice in Egypt, namely the Ptolemaic, Roman, Late Roman/Byzantine and modern period. In addition, the book ends with four catalogues describing and illustrating all the collective baths discovered in Egypt to date (103 buildings). This collaborative work brings to completion more than a decade of fieldwork on baths and bathing in Egypt. French description: Pendant une dizaine d'annees, le programme ?Bains antiques et medievaux d'Egypte? de l'Ifao et le groupe de recherche Balneorient ont mene une serie d'etudes multidisciplinaires portant sur le bain collectif et la culture balneaire des societes egyptiennes entre le ive s. av. J.-C. et l'epoque ottomane. Apres un premier volume, publie en 2009, qui a permis de dresser un premier etat des lieux, le present livre reunit des etudes de cas portant sur des bains tres recemment mis au jour et des articles thematiques explorant la question des techniques de construction et de decoration des bains, et celle du combustible utilise pour chauffer les edifices balneaires. Il comprend aussi quatre articles de synthese sur quatre periodes majeures de la pratique du bain collectif en Egypte?: epoque ptolemaique, Haut Empire, periode romano-byzantine et enfin epoque moderne. Ils sont accompagnes de quatre catalogues decrivant et illustrant tous les bains collectifs d'Egypte decouverts a ce jour (103), presentes a la fin du volume. Ce travail de collaboration represente l'achevement de plus d'une decennie de travaux de terrain sur les bains et les pratiques balneaires en Egypte.

Water Culture in Roman Society

Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004368973
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Water Culture in Roman Society written by Dylan Kelby Rogers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water.

The Book of the Bath

Author : Françoise de Bonneville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500018743
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Bath written by Françoise de Bonneville and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the secrets of bathrooms from the hedonistic world of the Roman thermae to the medieval bath-house, and from the 19th-century cabinet de toilette to the modern bathroom, this is an illustrated account of bathing through the ages. A history of bathing is provided, exploring bathrooms that are public, private, modern and luxurious. Necessity, pleasure, cleanliness and sensual satisfaction are all discussed and illustrated.

Bathing in the Roman World

Author : Fikret Yegül
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521840323
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Bathing in the Roman World written by Fikret Yegül and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bathing in the Roman World, Fikret Yegul examines the social and cultural aspects of one of the key Roman institutions. Guiding the reader through the customs, rituals, and activities associated with public bathing, Yegul traces the origins and development of baths and bathing customs and analyzes the sophisticated technology and architecture of bath complexes, which were among the most imposing of all Roman building types. He also examines the reception of bathing throughout the classical world and the transformation of bathing culture across three continents in Byzantine and Christian societies. The volume concludes with an epilogue on bathing and cleanliness in post-classical Europe, revealing the changes and continuities in culture that have made public bathing a viable phenomenon even in the modern era. Richly illustrated and written in an accessible manner, this book is geared to undergraduates for use in courses on Roman architecture, archaeology, civilization, and social and cultural history.

Clean

Author : Virginia Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579939
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Clean written by Virginia Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we still have nits? What exactly are 'purity rules'? And why have baths scarcely changed in 200 years? The long history of personal hygiene and purity is a fascinating subject that reveals how closely we are linked to our deeper past. In this pioneering book, Virginia Smith covers the global history of human body-care from the Neolithic to the present, using first-hand accounts and sources. From pre-historic grooming rituals to New Age medicine, from ascetics to cosmetics, Smith looks at how different cultures have interpreted and striven for personal cleanliness and shows how, throughout history, this striving for purity has brought great social benefits as well as great tragedies. It is probably safe to say that no-one who reads this book will look at his or her body (or bathroom) in quite the same way again.

Thermae Romae, Vol. 2

Author : Mari Yamazaki
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0316232238
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Thermae Romae, Vol. 2 written by Mari Yamazaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever Roman architect Lucius is suddenly submerged in water, he always surfaces to find himself in the land of the "flat-faces," a people whose appreciation for the public bathhouse matches that of even the mighty Romans! (Little does he realize that the land of his watery journeys is in fact the Japan of 1,500 years in the future!) Observing the strange practices of these foreigners has allowed Lucius to revolutionize the Roman bathhouse, and public opinion on his innovations-and on Aelius Caesar, the emperor-to-be to whom these marvels are attributed-soars. But those in the Senate maintain strong reservations about the suitability of the emperor-to-be, and they mean to cut off the flow of support at its source-Lucius!

The Dirt on Clean

Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867760
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Dirt on Clean written by Katherine Ashenburg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine "I will return in five days. Stop washing"? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Dirt on Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history's doctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.

Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'

Author : Christopher Prescott
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789255945
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time' written by Christopher Prescott and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s heritage through international collaboration. His decades of fostering research initiatives not only produced rich archaeological results spanning the Palaeolithic to the modern era but brought scholars from a range of schools and disciplines to work together in Sicily. Through his efforts, uniquely productive methodological, theoretical and interpretative networks were created. Their impact extends far beyond Sicily and Italy. To highlight these networks and their results, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, the Swedish Institute in Rome, the Norwegian Institute in Rome, the British School at Rome and the Assessorato dei Beni Culturali of Sicily, with generous support from the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, assembled this anthology of papers. The aim is to present a selection of the work of and results from contemporary, multi-national research projects in Sicily. The collaboration between the Sicilian and international partners, often in an interdisciplinary framework, has generated important results and perspectives. The articles in this volume present research projects from throughout the island. The core of the articles is concerned with the Archaic through to the Roman period, but diachronic studies also trace lines back to the Stone Age and up to the contemporary era. A range of methods and sources are explored, thus creating an up-to-date volume that is a referential gateway to contemporary Sicilian archaeology.