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Miletus, Rome, Italy c. 500 BC BB500BC5 Costume Nude and with a towel. TMC. Actions Three bathers occupy the cold-water bath, the "frigidaria," of the Faustina baths (1). Commentary Swimming pools existed in Roman times, over 2500 years ago. Sometimes the pools were sex-segregated, sometimes not. Sometimes people swam nude, sometimes not. Some of the baths are heated, some not. Source Drawing by von Gerkan and Krischen. Scanned from Fikret Yegul, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992, p. 294. 1 picture. |
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