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The Baths of Agrippa (Latin: Thermae Agrippae) was a structure of ancient Rome, built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. It was the first of the great thermae constructed in the city, and also the first Imperial Bath. == History == In the bath's first form, completed in 25 BCE, it was a hot-air room with cold plunge pools also known as a "laconian sudatorium or gymnasium".〔Cassius Dio (53.27.1)〕 With the completion of the Aqua Virgo in 19 BCE the baths were supplied with water and with the addition of a large open-air pool (''Stagnum Agrippae'').〔((LacusCurtius website) Samuel Ball Platner, ''A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' (London: Oxford University Press) ) 1929. See also note by William Thayer.〕 Between the construction and Agrippa's death the Baths were open to the public with an entrance fee charge. This charge was typically a quadran. Upon his death in 12 BC Agrippa left the baths to the citizens of Rome to use free of charge in exchange for donating various estates to Augustus, creating the first public imperial baths.〔Dio LIV.29.4〕〔Innovation and the baths of Agrippa Simpson, C J;BRUNDETT, N G R Athenaeum; Jan 1, 1997; 85, ProQuest pg. 220〕 The Baths of Agrippa were damaged along with many other structures by a large fire in 80 AD,〔Cass. Dio LXVI.24:〕 but were restored shortly thereafter by Domitian. The thermae was enlarged under Hadrian in the second century AD〔Hist. Aug. Hadr. 19: Romae instauravit lavacrum Agrippae; ''cf.'' also a reference in CIL VI.9797 = AL 294〕 and later by the emperors Constantius and Constans In 599, Pope Gregory the Great transformed the Baths into a nunnery. In the seventh century the structure (no longer in use after the Ostrogoths cut off the Roman aqueducts in the 530s) was being mined for its building materials, but much of the Baths were still standing in the sixteenth century, when the ruins were drawn by Baldassare Peruzzi and Andrea Palladio, among others. Today just part of the circular wall of the rotunda remains. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baths of Agrippa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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