Artist/Designer: Designer Unknown
Project Location: Greece
Style/Period(s):
No Style/Period Assigned.
Primary Material(s):
Ceramic
Function(s):
Health Facility
Related Website(s):
Significant Date(s):
B.C.E, 5th Century, 6th Century
Additional Information:
Bathing images that are mainly represented on vases from sixth to fifth-century B.C.E. These images show either nude young women or nude young men washing their entire bodies at high pedestal basins (louteria). Genders are strictly separated in these scenes, but bathing is still performed predominantly collectively, in groups of 2–5 persons.
Publication/text in print:
Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. "Building the Thermae Agrippae: Private Life, Public Space, and the Politics of Bathing in Early Imperial Rome." American Journal of Archaeology 123, no. 1 (2019): 45-77.
"Bathing and Hygiene." In To Live Like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, edited by Vose Robin, by Constable Olivia Remie and Nirenberg David, 63-103. PHILADELPHIA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Cook, J. M. "Bath-Tubs in Ancient Greece." Greece & Rome 6, no. 1 (1959): 31-41.
Lucore, Sandra K., and Trümper Monika. Greek Baths and Bathing Culture New Discoveries and Approaches. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.
McDavid, Allyson. "The Roman Bath in New York: Public Bathing, the Pursuit of Pleasure, and Monumental Delight." In Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham, edited by Macaulay-Lewis Elizabeth and McGowan Matthew M., 182-210. NEW YORK: Fordham University Press, 2018.
Walsh, Casey. "Bathing and Domination in the Early Modern Atlantic World." In Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico, 15-33. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
Greek baths and bathing culture- new discoveries and approaches by Sandra K Lucore; Monika Trümper
Building Address: Greece
Significant Dates: 5th - 6th Century
Tags: Bath culture, Vases, Ancient Greece, Bathtubs, Agamemnon (King), Bathing culture, Ancient, 5th Century, 6th Century, BCE. Ceramic, Bathing, aqueous, hygiene, hygienic, health,
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