Bath Part III

Listening intently to the audio guide.


The oldest bit of the baths we have. It's dated to 76 A.D.


A model of what the bath complex would've looked like in its original form. There was originally a roof over the Great Bath, keeping the water clean and pure (unlike the nasty green stuff that there's today), and that thing you see over to the left with the red roof is the temple to Minerva. There was a big statue of her in there, always bathed in godly light by a fire that was tended to by priests. There was an altar too, but that was kept outside in the courtyard.

This is part of how we know that the Greeks and Romans understood that the Earth is round - when they portrayed the planet, as here, they showed it as a sphere.