OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation · J199
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An exercise area associated with activities such as ball games and wrestling, often an open courtyard.
Revise: The bathsA visitor would leave their clothes in the apodyterium, or changing room. They might then exercise in the palaestra, an exercise area often laid out as an open courtyard with a surrounding colonnaded portico. Ball games and wrestling were available at bath complexes.
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An open exercise ground, often associated with a Roman bath complex.