#roman bathhouse

[thesilicontribesman]

The baths at Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire.

#roman #roman baths #roman living #roman bathhouse #bathing #relic #mosaics #hypocaust #tiles #pottery #ancient living #ancient craft #Chedworth #roman britain #roman villa #archaeology

[ancientstuff]

These heads have wonderful faces. Strong and angular.

#ancient Britain #archaeology #ancient Carlisle #Hadrian's wall #Roman Britain #Roman bathhouse

[lazylittledragon]

wait wait wait hold on a second. hold on a fucking second.

so the scent of the hells is described as ‘sulphuric’, and yurgir identifies raphael from smelling “cherries, musk and sulphur”

if you’ve never smelled sulphur before it’s a very specific rotten egg smell which means raphael is walking around trying to be all smooth while smelling like a fart

#ramble #bg3 #if you’ve been to a roman bathhouse or used hair dye remover you know the smell #it's. unpleasant #is the musk to cover it up?? does he KNOW???? i have questions

[ardenti-corde]

I would give anything to visit a Roman bathhouse. Being covered in scented oils and soaking in a big pool is a dream.

#my post #cottagecore #grandmacore #honeycore #goblincore #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #roman empire #roman baths #ancient rome #bathhouse #architecture

[gravehags]

just watched a video about all the 2nd and 3rd century CE intaglio and women’s hair pins that archaeologists found in the drain of an ancient roman bathhouse and now i’m crying about humans being humans since forever losing jewelry or hair accessories in weird places 😭 i love us

#my bro in law losing his wedding band down a drain 🤝 some roman dude losing his dionysus intaglio ring down a bathhouse drain

[ancientprettythings]

The laconicum at the Central Baths, Pompeii.

#pompeii #laconicum #therme #bathhouse #ancient rome #ancient roman #ancient architecture #ancientprettythings #original photography

[doonarose]

ok but what do i do with my life now?

#not really #i'll be dining out on this for years #but i had a four hour nap #and now I just don't have time pressure fandom shit #if we ignore the rest of my valentine's fic which i do need to write #the first part of that has gotten lost in all this #but it's like 10k roman bathhouse cock warming so

[arleniansdoodles]

Your gow fic has genuinely been a joy to watch evolve. I'm not even really in the fandom atm but i still come back here every so often to either see how its going or to read back through all the posts. Hope you aren't suffering burnout too badly but i am genuinely so so so excited for this!

Hope you have a wonderful day♡

Awww thank you so much, anon! It really made my day to read your comment <333 Rest assured I'm not too burnt out yet, I just need to get back in the flow of writing for GoW ^^;; Everything was so much easier back in the day when Atreus and Calliope were gallivanting across Greece and Rome! lmaoo

I hope you have a wonderful day too, anon! Here, let me share a snippet from the Rome arc with y'all; it's nothing too fancy, just a slice-of-life section of Atreus and Calliope getting cleaned up in a public bathhouse XDD Hope you enjoy! :DDD

(For context, Aelia is a bathhouse servant tasked to guide them around since this is Atreus' first time in a place like this)

After a few moments, Aelia took them through the large doors on the right of the tepidarium. They were immediately met with a gust of hot, steamy air. A large, circular bath filled the centre of the hall, sunk down into the floor, with citizens already lounging inside it. There were other smaller baths in the four corners of the hall. There were two small doorways to the left and right, and by the look of the steam escaping from under those doors, they likely led to hot-air baths.

“Hoc est caldarium,” Aelia announced.

“The hot room?” Atreus repeated in Greek, startled. A delighted grin spread over Calliope’s face.

“Vis frigidarium?” Aelia asked Atreus.

He turned to Calliope. “What kind of baths did you have in Sparta?”

“Hot air!” she said immediately. “They are very steamy and warm.” She pointed excitedly to the side doors. “Are those hot-air baths? Can we go there first?”

Atreus looked like he didn’t know whether to freeze or flee, but he nodded and turned to Aelia with the question. Aelia gestured for them to follow and moved to the left, passing by the hot pools and entering one of the side rooms.

It was empty, thank goodness. Steam rose up from a coal fire built into the centre of the floor, in turn heating the basin of water on top, releasing steam. Calliope hurried over to the stone benches that lined the walls, and sat down, swinging her feet. “Sit, Atreus!”

He sat down beside her. Aelia inclined her head to them and said something. Atreus replied, “Gratias tibi,” and Aelia departed from the room.

“She’ll be back in a quarter hour,” he said to Calliope. “We’re supposed to wait until we start sweating before going out to the water baths.”

“Yes,” Calliope agreed. “Then we can cool down after.”

Atreus leaned back against the frescoed wall. His skin was already starting to flush pink, and not from his earlier embarrassment. He reached up to undo his braid. “So … this is a hot-air bath, huh?”

“Do you like it?” Calliope asked eagerly. “Mother brought me to these all the time. It is very common in Sparta. Father told me he would go with his soldiers to the hot-air baths.”

“Really?” Atreus said, surprised. “All of them together?”

“Yes!” Calliope peered closer at Atreus’ red face. She giggled. “Are you shy?”

“What? No! It’s just, um, not what I’m used to. It’s pretty hot here, too.”

“Do you use hot water in your homeland?”

“Yeah. We have to heat it manually, since it’s usually cold to start with. But it’s never this hot, I think. Y’know, I’ve also taken some very cold baths.”

“How cold?”

“Like getting into a frozen lake.”

“No!”

“Yep! Felt like knives all over me. Father just stood on the banks and grunted.”

Calliope shivered at the thought despite the heat of the room. “Aelia mentioned a cold room,” she remembered. “Maybe you will like those more?”

Atreus laughed lightly. “I mean, I don’t like being too cold or too hot. It’s just something I had to do when we didn’t have time to heat up the water.”

#asks #anon asks #god of war #god of war ragnarok #au #atreus #calliope #writing #my writing #fanfiction #my fanfiction #bathhouse #roman baths

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

Roman ruins in the German city of Trier! Including most famously the Porta Nigra, but also the remainders of a Roman bathhouse and the thermal baths .

#mine #my pictures #my picture #photography #amateur photography #original content #germany #deutschland #mosel #city of trier #trier #roman times #roman #roman ruin #roman ruins #bathhouse #roman baths #porta nigra #thermal bath

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Bathhouse, Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

#roman fort #roman bathhouse #bathhouse #roman society #roman living #roman architecture #roman style #roman military #roman britain #roman empire #archaeology #ancient living #ancient culture #Northumberland #stonework #baths

[everlastingfable]

look how beautiful this place is!! and I just randomly stumbled upon it 🥺

#I love this all so so much #the buildings the plants the tunnels #frosty travels #personal #this was an old roman bathhouse #honestly just amazing to walk around after visiting bath and learning all about it

[taahko]

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

#shut up aggie

[byfaithmedia]

Discover the ancient wonders of Caesarea Maritima where you can see the magnificent ruins of an old Byzantine marble bathhouse where people would go to relax.

#WalktheBible #Bathhouse #Roman #RomanBathHouse #CaesareaPort #CaesareaMaritima #Caesarea #CaesareabytheSea #Marble #MarbleTiles #Rome #Israel #VisitIsrael #Jesus #ChristianHistory #God #holyland #holylandtour #Byzantine #bibletravel #christiantraveller #christiantravel #israeloftheday #ChristianPilgrimage #ChristianHeritage #Archaeology #BiblicalArchaeology #BibleArchaeology #WalkIsrael #DiscoverIsrael

[ocqueen]

Urge to go to a bathhouse to hang out in saunas and chill because I love the vibes vs knowledge that saying 'I'd love to go to a bathhouse' is almost universally taken by people as a sex thing, ESPECIALLY in a queer and NYC context, and that is exactly the opposite of the thing I want to do

#like the roman communal bathhouses guys #or an onsen hot spring bath in japan #or a hot spring in general (which ive been to before in the US) #theyre just so nice and relaxing PLEEEEASE #;w; #queen.tags #i told my mom this once in passing and she gave me a LOOK #and i had to be like no you see #i like being Warm #queen.txt #rambles #personal

[sohannabarberaesque]

Roman Holidays headcannon

Talk about close company: Gus Holiday and a few of his buddies from the construction company heading off to the bathhouse in the pre dawn for a mix of exercises and bathing (such being the common practice in Imperial Rome's bathhouses) ... with an especial fondness for a hot sand rub and cleansing with a stigril (which, if you ask, was a sort of bone razor used in the baths for scraping off dirt, sand and sweat).

#hanna barbera #headcannons #the roman holidays #bathhouse #bathing ritual #just some of the guys #hannabarberaforever

[dlyarchitecture]

#Bathhouse at the House of Menander in Pompeii. Rich Roman’s sure lived well!