Greek baths and bathing culture : new discoveries and approaches / edited by Sandra K. Lucore and Monika Trümper.

Date:
©2013
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Publication/Creation

Leuven ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, ©2013.

Physical description

vii, 350 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-348).

Contents

Introduction / Monika Trümper -- Women bathing: displaying female attractiveness on Greek vases / Adrian Stähli -- Baths and bathing in Greek medicine / Rebecca vlemming -- Urban context of Greek public baths / Monika Trümper -- Thermal matters: intersected legacies of the Greek and Roman baths and bathing culture / Fikret K Yegül -- The baths at Fregellae and the transition from balaneion to balneum / Vassilis Tsiolis -- The Hellenistic baths at Velia / Giovanna Greco and Carmelo Di Nicuolo -- Caulonia; monasterace marina: Hellenistic baths in the building near the 'Casamatta' / Maria Teresa Iannelli and Francesco Cuteri -- A newly identified Greek bath building at Locri Epizefiri / Claudio Sabbione -- Bathing in Hieronia Sicily / Sandra K. Lucore -- Archimedes and the baths: not only one Eureka / Daniele Napolitani and Ken Saito -- A new bathtub with hypocaust in Peristyle House 2 at Monte Iato / Christian Ressenberger -- The Hellenistic balaneion at the Roman forum of Thessaloniki / Polyxeni Adam-Veleni -- The bath complex in Hephaistia (Lemnos) / Emanuele Greco and Paolo Vitti -- The Greek baths in the Fayum at Euhemeria and Theadelphia: a preliminary report / Cornelia Römer -- Heating systems of Greek baths: new evidence from Egypt / Thibaud Fournet and Bérangère Redon -- Map: location of Greek public baths / Thibaud Fournet -- Catalog of Greek baths: introduction / Monika Trümper -- Catalog / Thibaud Fournet, Sandra K. Lucore, Bérangère Redon, Monika Trümper.

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    History of Medicine
    JGL.328.AA1
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  • 9042928972
  • 9789042928978