A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 130
he routine of the bath, which occupied a large place in the life bothof the Greeks and Romans. Celsus, who wrote on the art ofmedicine probably early in the first century after Christ, recom-mended the bather first to go into the moderately heated room(tepidarium), and perspire slightly, then to… … Fig. 125.—Athleteusing Strigil. HOUSE AND FURNITURE. Ill) hot, warm, and cold water alternately over his head, then to scrapehimself with the strigil, and finally to anoint himself—the lastprobably a precaution against taking cold. This description willenable us to understand the use of the…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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