The Story of Roman Bath

by Patricia Southern

Book Overview

When the Romans built the bath-and-temple complex of Bath in the late first century AD, they called the place Aquae Sulis, the waters of Sulis, a British deity who was equated with the Roman goddess Minerva. It was unlike any other town in Roman Britain, and it had no specific town status, compared to nearby Cirencester, which was a chartered town set up as a tribal administrative centre. All classes of people came to Aquae Sulis, to visit the temple...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445643790
• ISBN13: 9781445643793
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages