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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Popularity of Roman Bathing Culture | |
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| Bathing Rituals and Activities | |
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| Time of Bathing | |
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| Routine of Bathing | |
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| Bathing, Exercise, and Games | |
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| Bathing Order | |
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| Entertainment in Baths | |
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| Eating and Drinking in Baths | |
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| Seneca's Description of Public Baths | |
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| Critics of Roman Bathing: Ethical and Moral Concerns | |
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| Yearning for Republican Simplicity and Criticism of Luxury | |
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| Did Roman Baths Encourage Uncouth Behavior? | |
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| Excesses of Eating and Drinking | |
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| Sex, Nudity, Men, Women | |
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| The Roman Bath as a Democratic Institution | |
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| Origins and Development of Roman Baths and Bathing | |
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| Literary Evidence | |
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| The Greek Bath and the Greek Gymnasium | |
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| Farm Traditions of Rural Italy | |
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| Balneae and Thermae | |
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| Thermal Baths and Spas | |
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| Archaeological and Physical Evidence | |
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| Early Examples from Pompeii, Campania, and Fregellae | |
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| The Pompeian/Campanian Bath Type and Its Dissemination | |
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| Baths in Rome, Ostia, and Tivoli | |
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| Rome | |
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| Ostia | |
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| Tivoli | |
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| Baths of Hippias: A Neighborhood Bath | |
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| Heating and Water Supply Systems of Roman Baths | |
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| The Heating of Roman Baths | |
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| Floor Heating Systems and the Hypocaust | |
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| Sergius Orata and the Origins of the Hypocaust | |
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| Wall Heating Systems | |
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| Tiles with Nipples (Tegulae Mammatae) and Box-Tiles (Tubuli) | |
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| Furnaces | |
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| Heating of Water and Boilers | |
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| Testudines Alveolorum | |
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| Laconica and Steam Bathing | |
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| Water Supply Systems | |
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| Architecture of Roman Baths | |
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| The Thermae of Rome | |
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| The Baths of Agrippa, First among the Imperial Thermae | |
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| What Is as Bad as Nero, What Is as Good as His Thermae? | |
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| Thermae of Trajan - The Maturation of a Type | |
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| Thermae of Caracalla: The Flagship of the Imperial Thermae | |
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| The Great Costs of Building an Imperial Thermae | |
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| Life in the Great Thermae | |
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| Gymnastic Uses of the Thermae | |
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| Roman Attitudes toward Gymnastics and the Gymnasium | |
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| Athletic Clubs in Thermae | |
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| Libraries and Classrooms in Thermae | |
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| The Immersive Sensory Experience of Thermae | |
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| Provincial Baths of North Africa | |
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| Imperial Thermae in North Africa | |
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| Hadrianic Baths in Lepcis Magna | |
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| Antonine Thermae in Carthage | |
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| Large East Baths at Mactar | |
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| The Large Baths at Djemila and the Baths of Licinius at Dougga | |
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| The Baths of Julia Memmia at Bulla Regia - An Example of the Half-Axial Type | |
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| Small Baths with Creative Plans | |
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| The Small Baths at Cherchel and the South Baths at Karanis | |
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| The Small Central Baths at Timgad | |
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| The Hunting Baths at Lepcis Magna: "Purely Functional Form" | |
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| The Small Baths at Thenae | |
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| The Baths of Pompeianus at Oued Athmenia | |
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| Baths and Bathing in Asia Minor: The Gymnastic Tradition | |
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| The Bath-Gymnasium Complex: A New Architectural Type | |
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| The Baths of Vergilius Capito at Miletus: An Early Bath-Gymnasium | |
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| The Harbor Bath-Gymnasium at Ephesus: A Grand Establishment | |
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| The Vedius Bath-Gymnasium at Ephesus and the Imperial Bath-Gymnasium at Sardis | |
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| The Imperial Halls and the "Marble Court" of Sardis | |
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| An Unusual and Awkward Plan: The East Bath-Gymnasium at Ephesus and the Bath-Gymnasium at Alexandria Troas | |
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| The Baths of Faustina at Miletus: An Asymmetrical Arrangement | |
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| The Bath-Gymnasium during Late Antiquity | |
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| Baths of the Southern Hilly Regions: Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia | |
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| The Baths of Rough Cilicia | |
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| "Hall Type" Baths and Their Social Significance | |
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| Bathing and Baths in the East during the Late Antique and Byzantine Periods: New Paradigms of Social Use | |
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| The Baths of Constantinople | |
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| The Thermae of Zeuxippos | |
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| The Neighborhood Trilogy: The Mansion, the Church, and the Bath | |
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| Roman Baths of Antioch | |
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| "Somewhat to Our Dismay, It (Is) Another Bath": Bath C | |
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| Bath E | |
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| Small Baths in Syria as Agents of a New Social Paradigm | |
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| Some Thoughts on the Sources of the New Social Meaning in Bath Design and Use | |
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| Some Large Baths in Syria | |
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| Transformations of Roman Baths and Bathing in Christian and Islamic Societies | |
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| Christianity and the Changing Bathing Culture: "He Who Has Bathed in Christ Has No Need of a Second Bath" | |
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| What Christianity Really Objected to in Bathing | |
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| Alousia or the State of Being Unwashed | |
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| Early Islamic Baths in Syria: A Seamless Tradition | |
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| An Islamic Palace Bath: Khirbat al-Mafjar | |
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| The Bath as a Pleasurable Gathering of Friends in Islamic Society | |
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| Baths, Bathing, and Cleanliness in Postclassical European Societies | |
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| Baths in the Middle Ages: Agents of Hygiene or "Aesthetic Promiscuity" | |
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| "Bath Houses, Flee from Them or You Shall Die!" | |
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| Water as a Harmful Element and Cleanliness as a Matter of Appearance | |
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| Western Christianity and Latter-Day Alousia | |
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| Rediscovery of Public Bathing | |
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| Oriental Baths and Orientalism | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |