‘Baths, wine, and sex make life worth living’: how ancient Romans used public baths to relax, work out and socialise

by Peter Edwell, The Conversation; Edited by Dario Radley Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago. Today, the bare shell of what was one of Rome’s largest bath complexes mostly sits empty, occasionally playing host to […]

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