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- - - - Forum baths
        
        The Forum Baths were built between 30 and 10 BC and follow the standard Roman design of baths
        
        The floor of the tepidarium (warm bath) features a mosaic in the design of a huge Triton with serpents entwined around his legs, surrounded by frolicking dolphins
      - Suburban baths
        
        located outside the town walls, near the sea
        
        The baths themselves are in a very good state of preservation, but have been difficult to excavate due to the dense volcanic rock and the lowered water tables
        
        Damage has been done to the site not only by the eruption, but also by tunnellers in the early days of excavation
  - - - Forum baths
      - Stabian baths
        
        Oldest
        
        Largest
      - Central baths
      - Ampitheatre baths
    - - Vents also allowed for steam and smoke to escape
      - Clogs had to be worn to stop feet being burned on hot floor
    - - In the 1st century BC, the duumviri G. Iulius and P. Annius, according to an inscription, reconstructed the palestra and the porticoes, and added a laconicum or sauna and a destrictatrium or scraping room
      - Augustan period
        
        New pool
        
        New wing added
        
        palaestra extended
    - - Fourth-Style frescoes
      - multicoloured stucco bas reliefs
      - mosaic floors
      - marble fittings
- - - - essential tool for social and political control
      - used to boast the skill of cook
      - show off silver and glassware
      - Women joined husbands
    - - Were popular
      - slaves helped remove outer clothing and vomiting
      - Nine people could attend (including host/ his wife)
    - - located in wealthy households
- - - - Pompeii theatres; the Large Theatre and the Odeion
      - The large theatre
      - Greek model with semicircular, tiered seating of 5000
      - 2nd century BC, additions during reign of Augustus by Marcus Holconius Rufus, local official
      - The proscenium and stage building begun after AD 62 earthquake.
      - Lower marble tiers reserved for elite members
      - The Games of Apollo at Pompeii: comedies and tragedies
      - Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum refer to groups of players touring around the Campanian region
      - The Odeion
      - seating was arranged and decorated according to status.
      - Roofed = good acoustics
      - Used for poetry readings and concerts
  - - - Herculaneum
      - freestanding structure
      - 19 rows of tiered seating of about 2000.
      - Marcus Nonius Balbus commemorated in inscriptions and statues along with statues of gods and imperial and local figures
      - Plays, farces and pantomimes – stories told with music
- - - - Exercise ground for the military and for youth organisation promoted by the emperor
        
        Spacious, open-air area measuring 141 metres by 107 metres
        
        Colonnades on three sides shaded by plane trees
        
        Centre was a rectangular swimming pool fed with fresh water from the nearby aqueduct
    - - Slightly smaller than Pompeii total area of 120 metres by 80 metres
        
        Also surrounded by colonnades on three sides
        
        Fourth side was a covered walkway
        
        Centre was an ornamental, cross-shaped pool featuring a fountain in the shape of a serpent with five heads
        
        Swimming pool in front of the covered walkway
        
        Umbrella pines provided shade