“Baths, wine and women corrupt our bodies, but these things make life itself.” runs a saying that has come down from Roman times. Roman baths were the social centres of the cities of the empire and a gentleman was expected to visit them at least once a day. This picture shows the largest of all the Roman baths to have survived, the Baths of Diocletian in the centre of Rome. The baths could accommodate 3000 people at a time and included reading rooms, shopping arcades, and a gymnasium. The illustration comes from a profusely illustrated history. “Rome and Her Empire,” by Barry Cunliffe (Bodley Head, 307 pp, indexs, $46). Dr Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at Oxford and he has managed to combine an entertaining and informative text with some of the finest pictures of Roman ruins ever published.
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Press, 30 December 1978, Page 15
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