Nice. If I had lived there I would have loved to have spent my day exactly like this women described. Sounds like a perfect way to spend a relaxing day!
The mosaic fresque @4:10 is amazing. The women looks like 1980's european women in bikini but there is a different mystical air in their eyes and face, they look humble like Roman women were known to be.
Really, this video didn't have to keep harping about slaves. Slaves had rights and could become free citizens. Emperor Commodus freed and appointed two of his slaves to the highest rank as his top advisors -- it turned out that one was good and the other evil. Since the video was about the baths, it should have explained how temperatures were measured and maintained, and how the water was treated to keep it sanitary.
After the Judean war, the Roman empire had Jewish slaves. The Jews had been the Egyptian slaves, next they became Roman slaves. Later after being evicted from Spain by the Royal edict of Queen Isabelle they went to France, Holland and England under maranos names and started the Conquista and pillaging of South American Maya civilization and even later the transatlantic trade inclusing african slaves that they dominated. The most direct descendants of the Romans are not the Italians as most people think because Rome became full of immigrants so much so that they outnumbered the Romans for centuries. The french people are the most direct descendants of the Romans.
Lol.... nothing has changed, no longer called slaves but factory workers, miners, mass assembly workers, kitchen & other personnel in luxury restaurants/ hotels / Spas who themselves can never afford the services they provide. Love history!
to speak about the one topic that's always avoided, the public latrines in roman cities were probably only for slaves and low ranking servants and certainly not a mixed man-woman facility. Each building had its own latrines therefore more luxurious buildings with fewer resident had better and more private latrines. Most slaves went around naked and male nakedness was common. Obviously the slave had "to go" too and the roman had to cater for them as a matter of public health, i suppose that is what these latrines fixtures were for. Roman citizens probably would instead use containers that their slaves would bring to them and dispose of afterwards. No need for permanent fixtures. And to fully adress the topic could not be done without mentioning how they 'cleaned' themselves. Clearly running water is key and from what i read : a rounded stone. One can imagine it was a slave's work to keep a supply of clean round stones for the job and have the disgusting chore to clean them after use. I am surprised archeologists can not figure that much as i do by simple deduction and logic and instead tell stupidities like latrine were for everybody, most have no brain. I think non-roman women slave became servant and would not have to use public latrines. In any case, no civilization would allow women squatting naked in public to discharge themselves in full view of men as that would without a doubt lead to public disorder. Sex is strong lure. Even imagining such a scene is already dizzying., it just cannot be.
@@lakshmivaidyanathan2254 fabric was expensive, weather was warm. But i suppose they were not fully naked. Mature provides fibers to make substitute to clothing.
There's so much to be said about the Roman bath, from its art & architecture to its social significance; it's too bad the creators of this video succumbed to wokeness and chose to focus on the classic Marxist binary of oppressors vs oppressed. Social inequality and oppression is not the only topic worth discussing. Furthermore, making up "slave accounts" for the sake of giving them a voice is also outright unprofessional and misleading.
What - did you really describe Roman society as a "democracy"? The Roman Republic was never a democracy. And hypocausts as a "unique heating technology"?! Underfloor hypocaust type heating has been used in many cultures, the Korean ondol being the most notable similar ancient technology.
+psammiad Ok, I can never understand people who write comments in this fashion. You absolutely have right to have your own opinion and your own view. That's perfectly fine. But why do you have to do it in such a spiteful manner? Besides, to present my own opinion in a polite way (an intelligent person does not need to prove to everyone around him/her that they are smarter by being mean), if you would listen closely, they never said that Roman society was democratic. They said that the baths could be seen as, in a sense, democratic, because by walking into the baths and getting rid of your clothes, in your eu naturale state if you prefer, people could be seen as equals, since you wouldn't be able to distinguish a senator from a sausage seller when they're naked. As for your second point, I do not recall in the film the expression 'unique heating technology'. I've heard them saying about a 'sophisticated' heating technology, which is quite different, don't you think?
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This series is terrific. Thank you AIRC for producing them. I am looking forward to another visit.
Nice. If I had lived there I would have loved to have spent my day exactly like this women described. Sounds like a perfect way to spend a relaxing day!
The mosaic fresque @4:10 is amazing. The women looks like 1980's european women in bikini but there is a different mystical air in their eyes and face, they look humble like Roman women were known to be.
Very good insight into the Roman culture. Enjoyed the the playing out of what a slave might say or a wife of a business man might describe to us.
Great video!
Interesting!
I'd like to see where the script of the slave and the girl enjoying the baths was found. or was that just creative licence?
In Rome there is a huge underground heated bath that covers acres!
Great!
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Who is the artist of those beautiful paintings?
Really, this video didn't have to keep harping about slaves. Slaves had rights and could become free citizens. Emperor Commodus freed and appointed two of his slaves to the highest rank as his top advisors -- it turned out that one was good and the other evil. Since the video was about the baths, it should have explained how temperatures were measured and maintained, and how the water was treated to keep it sanitary.
can we get references for those quotes?
After the Judean war, the Roman empire had Jewish slaves. The Jews had been the Egyptian slaves, next they became Roman slaves. Later after being evicted from Spain by the Royal edict of Queen Isabelle they went to France, Holland and England under maranos names and started the Conquista and pillaging of South American Maya civilization and even later the transatlantic trade inclusing african slaves that they dominated.
The most direct descendants of the Romans are not the Italians as most people think because Rome became full of immigrants so much so that they outnumbered the Romans for centuries. The french people are the most direct descendants of the Romans.
thanks! :)
.....So they had clear glass back then?
Lol.... nothing has changed, no longer called slaves but factory workers, miners, mass assembly workers, kitchen & other personnel in luxury restaurants/ hotels / Spas who themselves can never afford the services they provide. Love history!
Lol....it’s almost like they’re getting paid for that.
There was no toilet paper then. I searched TH-cam and found evidence of them using sponges instead.
Yeah, it must've been disgusting for them but idk they might've been used to it
gg very informative
to speak about the one topic that's always avoided, the public latrines in roman cities were probably only for slaves and low ranking servants and certainly not a mixed man-woman facility. Each building had its own latrines therefore more luxurious buildings with fewer resident had better and more private latrines. Most slaves went around naked and male nakedness was common. Obviously the slave had "to go" too and the roman had to cater for them as a matter of public health, i suppose that is what these latrines fixtures were for. Roman citizens probably would instead use containers that their slaves would bring to them and dispose of afterwards. No need for permanent fixtures. And to fully adress the topic could not be done without mentioning how they 'cleaned' themselves. Clearly running water is key and from what i read : a rounded stone. One can imagine it was a slave's work to keep a supply of clean round stones for the job and have the disgusting chore to clean them after use. I am surprised archeologists can not figure that much as i do by simple deduction and logic and instead tell stupidities like latrine were for everybody, most have no brain. I think non-roman women slave became servant and would not have to use public latrines. In any case, no civilization would allow women squatting naked in public to discharge themselves in full view of men as that would without a doubt lead to public disorder. Sex is strong lure. Even imagining such a scene is already dizzying., it just cannot be.
Why were male slaves naked were they forced
@@lakshmivaidyanathan2254 fabric was expensive, weather was warm. But i suppose they were not fully naked. Mature provides fibers to make substitute to clothing.
There's so much to be said about the Roman bath, from its art & architecture to its social significance; it's too bad the creators of this video succumbed to wokeness and chose to focus on the classic Marxist binary of oppressors vs oppressed. Social inequality and oppression is not the only topic worth discussing. Furthermore, making up "slave accounts" for the sake of giving them a voice is also outright unprofessional and misleading.
What - did you really describe Roman society as a "democracy"? The Roman Republic was never a democracy. And hypocausts as a "unique heating technology"?! Underfloor hypocaust type heating has been used in many cultures, the Korean ondol being the most notable similar ancient technology.
+psammiad Ok, I can never understand people who write comments in this fashion. You absolutely have right to have your own opinion and your own view. That's perfectly fine. But why do you have to do it in such a spiteful manner? Besides, to present my own opinion in a polite way (an intelligent person does not need to prove to everyone around him/her that they are smarter by being mean), if you would listen closely, they never said that Roman society was democratic. They said that the baths could be seen as, in a sense, democratic, because by walking into the baths and getting rid of your clothes, in your eu naturale state if you prefer, people could be seen as equals, since you wouldn't be able to distinguish a senator from a sausage seller when they're naked. As for your second point, I do not recall in the film the expression 'unique heating technology'. I've heard them saying about a 'sophisticated' heating technology, which is quite different, don't you think?
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